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How Roman Numerals Originated?

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We all are aware of Roman Numerals.

I – 1II – 2III – 3IV – 4V – 5VI – 6VII – 7
VIII – 8IX – 9X – 10L – 50C – 100D – 500M – 1000

You might have seen these symbols in watches and clocks. Do you know how these symbols originated?

These symbols were started from the fingers of our hands

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Next to get 6, 7, 8 and 9: 1, 2, 3 and 4 are added to 5

6 – VI, 7 – VII, 8 – VIII, 9 – VIIII and 10 – By two 5s (V and other inverted V)

Later on 4 (IV) and 9 (IX) were introduced by keeping I on left of 5 (V) and 10 (X) (Left means one less)

Larger Roman numerals were developed from other symbols.

M = 1,000 originally, the Greek letter phi – Φ – represented this value, which later on become CIƆ – which resembles M

D = 500 is half of 1,000 (CIƆ) i.e., IƆ which later on become D

C = 100, the original symbol was theta (Θ) and later become C. It is just coincidental, it stands for centum, the Latin word for a hundred.
L = 50 – this value was originally represented by a superimposed V and I, or by the letter psi – Ψ – which later flattened out to look like an inverted ‘T’, and then eventually came to resemble an L.

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