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To: The KG9 Kid
Yeah, but try long division with Roman numerals.

I can't even come close to doing that, and I took two years of Latin in high school.

BTW, what's the square root of XIX?

12 posted on 07/07/2011 10:28:30 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Rudder
"... BTW, what's the square root of XIX?"

If the Romans defined numbers smaller than "I" (One), which they didn't, and therefore understood the decimal point in a non-duodecimal base10 numeric system, which they didn't, we can express the square root of the Roman number 29 in the following anachronistic way:

V.MMMDCCCLI

14 posted on 07/07/2011 11:03:10 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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