2025-09-18,
of Romans and thousands

2016-08-21 – Nikon D3300
small canal, Mae Sai, Thailand

Krypteria – Dream Yourself Far Away ↗

La Fête du Génie, 2 Sansculottides, CCXXXIII
Celebration of Talent, 2 Complementary, 233

using regular Roman numerals, you can only write numbers up to 3999 = MMMCMXCIX – but with the apostrophus method using ‘Ↄ’ from the Etruscans, you can write much larger numbers (although the “proper” limit with apostrophus is still 100 000) – but Wikipedia also mentions imagine the Cs and Ↄs as parentheses

• 500 = IↃ = I) = D
• 1000 = CIↃ = (I) = ↀ = ∞
• 5000 = IↃↃ = I)) = ↁ
• 10 000 = CCIↃↃ = ((I)) = ↂ
• 50 000 = IↃↃↃ = I))) = ↇ
• 100 000 = CCCIↃↃↃ = (((I))) = ↈ
• 12 025 HE = CCIↃↃMMXXV HE = ((I))MMXXV HE = ↂMMXXV HE

Roman numerals – Large numbers ↗

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