For those who don't know their Roman numerals

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loftar
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Re: For those who don't know their Roman numerals

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theTrav wrote:What really annoys me is how people have ignored ten hundred and jumped straight to thousand, but then gone back on their orders of magnitude thing and stuck with ten thousand and hundreds of thousands before going to million.

one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,
ten (10),
hundred(100),
tenhundred(10 00),
thousand(1 00 00),
tenthousand(10 00 00),
tenhundredthousand(1 00 00 00),
million(10 00 00 00)


BRING BACK TEN HUNDRED DAMNIT!
I suggest a binary-like combinatorial system for designating orders of magnitude. If ten = 1, hundred = 2, thousand = 4, et cetera, then 100000 = 10^5 = 10^(1 + 4) = "ten thousand", and 1000 is, indeed, "ten hundred".

There only remains the slight problem of assigning numbers to the magnitudes below the first. :)
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Flame
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Re: For those who don't know their Roman numerals

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no. Nononono. Too hard!
let's go back to Apples!!

I have Apple! I have Apples(2) I have Appless (3) Appleplepleeplees! (really a lot, who care how much!)

I I'M APPLE! (the one that rule.)


Simply, yah 8D?
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Re: For those who don't know their Roman numerals

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JC! :shock:





:lol: :D
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Re: For those who don't know their Roman numerals

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Flame wrote:no. Nononono. Too hard!
let's go back to Apples!!

I have Apple! I have Apples(2) I have Appless (3) Appleplepleeplees! (really a lot, who care how much!)

I I'M APPLE! (the one that rule.)


Simply, yah 8D?
Made my day, lmao

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