Hi does anyone know what is wrong with the book share website thanks.----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: copywrite year in roman numerals
Nicely done, Rick. If I hadn't read a little further in my mail I would have just given her the answer. smileYour explanation of roman numerals is wonderful, but you forgot an important part--explaining why ix is 9 and CM is 900, i.e., that a number in front of another number means to subtract and a number or numbers after mean to add. So x being 10, and i being one, ix is ten minus one, or 9, and xi is ten plus one, meaning 11.G.Cindy --- On Thu, 5/29/08, Rick Roderick <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Rick Roderick <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: copywrite year in roman numerals To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 6:57 AM Mary, If I remember right, M is 1000, c is 100, and L is 50. CM would be 900, because in Roman numerals, that would be 900, just as IX is 9, whereas X is 10,. To make a long story short, that would be 1950. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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