Konverter tal til og fra romertal
Numbers above 3,999 use vinculum notation: a line above a numeral multiplies its value by 1,000.
So CMXCIXDCLXXVIII = 999 678.
Did you know?
The One Super Bowl That Broke Tradition
The NFL has used Roman numerals for every Super Bowl since 1971 — except one. Super Bowl 50 in 2016 dropped the numerals because "Super Bowl L" looked awkward in marketing. A single letter doesn't have the same gravitas as a string of numerals. They went back to Roman numerals the very next year with Super Bowl LI.
Read more →Can People Actually Read Them?
Ask the average person what number Super Bowl LVIII is, and you'll get a lot of confident wrong answers. But it doesn't matter. The Roman numerals aren't there to communicate a number efficiently. They're there to communicate importance. When you see LVIII, you don't need to know it's 58. You need to feel that this is an event with history and weight.
Read more →Hvor stammer romertal fra?
Man mener, at romertal stammer fra håndsignaler og tællestreger. Stregen I repræsenterer en finger, V repræsenterer åbningen mellem tommelfinger og fingre for fem, og X repræsenterer krydsede hænder for ti. Bogstaverne L, C, D og M stammer fra ændringer af græske bogstaver som chi, theta og phi til at repræsentere 50, 100, 500 og 1.000. Over tid blev disse mærker til de latinske bogstaver, folk kender i dag. Der er ingen 0 i det romerske alfabet, da begrebet tallet 0 først blev fuldt udviklet, efter at Indien opfandt det omkring 600 e.Kr. / 10600 HE.