#Roman Numerals

[superbeans89]

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[aromanticduck]

The main reason to teach kids about Roman numerals isn't that they're useful in real life, but because they're so bloody awkward to actually calculate with that it might give the students some appreciation for the number system we actually use.

Like yeah, long multiplication is a ballache, but it could be so much worse.

[a-snake-makes-moodboards]

The Homeless Guy from the Hatchetfield Universe moodboard with time inspo

requested by: my lovely moot @venomousray!!

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[divider creds: @sister-lucifer]

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song to go with it: 'La Dee Dah Dah Day' from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

[thatsbelievable]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Everyone could read analog clocks with Roman numerals except me.

[curtvilescomic]

[silverbridge-harbor]

Very clever to title the first episode of black sails "aye" and the second episode "aye aye". However the rest of the series past that may be taking the bit too far

[stormyy-bluezz01]

i can't remember either

[odd-odds-and-oddities]

[marcustumblerius]

[blunt-force-therapy]

On the one hand the way we learn Roman numerals is largely a Renaissance rework purposefully made to impose order where there wasn't any, which means that it's inaccurate to its origins, but also that it's the only useful system of Roman numerals that exists in the modern West. Properly infuriating

[cepheusgalaxy]

I.e: "XIX" or "VMCDIII" (respectively, 9 and 5403)

I was curious, because in my country, we count thr centurirs using roman numerals, and we learned to read them in elementary school. Some of my peers get confused with them sometimes, but in general we were taught that. In english speaking spaces, I have seen that people count the centuries with the indo-arabic nummerals so I was curious to if those prople use the roman numeration system at all.

[sacrifical-lamb-core]

You wouldn’t be able to pry dyscalculia child Jason Grace out of my cold dead hands.

[utah-offical]

I'm calling Twitter 10 now