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ONLY COUNTING! COUNTING! COUNTING! COUNTING! AND ONE'S MORE COUNTING!

It is always an advantage if you can count to ten in any language. The mainnumerals are left and ordinals right.

1	unus	first	primus
2	duo	second	secundus
3	tres	thirth	tertius
4	quattuor	fourth	quartus
5	quinque	fifth	quintus
6	sex	sixth	sextus
7	septem	seventh	septimus
8	octo	eighth	octavus
9	novem	nineth	nonus
10	decem	tenth	decimus
20	viginti
100	centem
1000	mille

The Roman used numbers. They looks different from our numbers. They used characters as numbers and they put a stripe above the character so everyone knew it was a number.

	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10

We drop the strike now, because we all know it is a number.

XX	20
XXX	30
XL	40
L	50
XC	90
C	100
CD	400
D	500
CM	900
M	1000

But first an exemple: MDCXVI = 1616 and CDXLIX = 449. Type the following numbers in Roman numbers or in our numbers.

1999 45 23 15 446 MCM CCLXXII CDXLIV MCMXCVIII

Correct your exercise.

End lesson

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