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    I II III: Three One Two

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    The document lists Roman numerals from I to M along with their values. It then provides 4 principles for reading Roman numerals: 1) Repeated letters increase the value, 2) Letters placed after increase the value, 3) Letters placed before decrease the value, and 4) A bar increases the value by 1,000.

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    I II III: Three One Two

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    The document lists Roman numerals from I to M along with their values. It then provides 4 principles for reading Roman numerals: 1) Repeated letters increase the value, 2) Letters placed after increase the value, 3) Letters placed before decrease the value, and 4) A bar increases the value by 1,000.

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    The document lists Roman numerals from I to M along with their values. It then provides 4 principles for reading Roman numerals: 1) Repeated letters increase the value, 2) Letters placed after increase the value, 3) Letters placed before decrease the value, and 4) A bar increases the value by 1,000.

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    I II III: Three One Two

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    The document lists Roman numerals from I to M along with their values. It then provides 4 principles for reading Roman numerals: 1) Repeated letters increase the value, 2) Letters placed after increase the value, 3) Letters placed before decrease the value, and 4) A bar increases the value by 1,000.

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    of 6

    I II III

    one two three

    IV V VI
    four five six
    VII VIII IX
    seven eight nine

    X XI XII
    ten eleven twelve
    XIII XIV XV
    thirteen fourteen fifteen

    XVI XVII XVIII


    sixteen seventeen eighteen
    XIX XX XXX
    nineteen twenty thirty

    XL L LX
    forty fifty sixty
    LXX LXXX XC
    seventy eighty ninety

    C M D
    one one five
    hundred thousand hundred
    Roman Numerals

    Roman numerals are expressed by letters of the Letter Value


    I 1
    alphabet and are rarely used today except for
    formality or variety. There are four basic II 2

    principles for reading Roman numerals: III 3

    IV 4
    1. A letter repeated once or twice repeats its
    value that many times (XXX = 30, CC = V 5
    200, etc.). VI 6

    2. One or more letters placed after another VII 7

    letter of greater value increases the greater VIII 8


    value by the amount of the smaller (VI = IX 9
    6, LXX = 70, MCC = 1200, etc.).
    X 10
    3. A letter placed before another letter of XX 20
    greater value decreases the greater value
    XXX 30
    by the amount of the smaller (IV = 4, XC
    = 90, CM = 900, etc.). XL 40

    L 50
    4. A bar placed on top of a letter or string of
    letters increases the numeral's value by LX 60

    1,000 times (XV = 15, XV = 15,000). LXX 70

    LXXX 80

    XC 90

    C 100

    D 500

    M 1,000

    V 5,000

    X 10,000

    L 50,000

    C 100,000

    D 500,000

    M 1,000,000

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