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To: MaineVoter2002

For some reason...I never realized, or forgot, that 9-11 was IXXI in Roman Numerals


20 posted on 10/19/2006 3:31:07 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Isn't 911 CMXI ?


22 posted on 10/19/2006 3:34:39 PM PDT by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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To: digger48
Not! 911 is CMXI. IX is nine and XI is eleven. but IXXI is nonsense in Roman Numeral codification.

I - One

V- Five

X - Ten

L - Fifty

C - Hundred

D - Five Hundred

M - Thousand.

IX - XI would be 9-11.

45 posted on 10/21/2006 1:06:55 PM PDT by Young Werther
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