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To: oldbill
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CCCLDCCCLXMMMCXX

Took some liberty with the double overline above CCCL. It was suggested on a site, but couldn't find any examples. A single overline (like over the DCCCLX indicates *1000), so a double indicates *1,000,000 (*1000*1000).

Had flashbacks to Catholic School there and a sudden urge to watch Blues Brothers....

25 posted on 09/02/2010 12:59:54 PM PDT by Textide
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To: Textide

I had to dig around and yours was creative, but I don’t really think they had a way of expressing such huge numbers. I never saw the double bar multiplier.

I think a Roman would have said “numerus maximus, ultra descriptionum” (a humungous number so big you can’t describe it).

Sister Agnes would be ashamed of both of us.


32 posted on 09/02/2010 1:48:13 PM PDT by oldbill
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