Back to basics!
The number symbols we use every day came from Arabia and are called Arabic numerals. A different system was used in ancient Rome, namely symbols known as Roman numerals. The Roman numeral system uses six basic symbols: I (one), V (five), X (ten), L (fifty), C (one hundred), and M (one thousand).
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There are two rules for writing Roman numerals:
1. Putting a numeral of lesser value before a numeral of greater value decreases the second numeral by the amount of the first. Thus IV equals four because V (five)
