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Writing Numbers as Roman Numerals
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Roman Numerals
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Class 8 (Ganita Prakash & Old NCERT)
Chapter 3 Class 8 - A Story of Numbers (Ganita Prakash)
- Introduction
- The Mechanism of Counting
- Some Early Number Systems
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Roman Numerals
- Figure it out - Page 60, 61
- Egyptian Number System
- Variations on the Egyptian System and the Notion of Base
- Adding Egyptian Numerals
- Multiplying Egyptian Numerals
- Distributive Law – For Egyptian Numerals
- Abacus that Makes Use of the Decimal System
- Shortcomings of the Egyptian System
- Figure it out - Page 69
- Mesopotamian Number System
- Mayan Number System
- Chinese Number System
- Hindu Number System
- Evolution of Ideas in Number Representation
- Figure it out - Page 80
Transcript
Writing Numbers as Roman Numerals Lets take some examples Write 16 as roman numeral 16 = 10 + 5 + 1 = X + V + I = XVI Write 27 as roman numeral 20 = 20 + 7 = 10 + 10 + 7 = X + X + VII = XXVII Write 34 as roman numeral 34 = 30 + 4 = 10 + 10 + 10 + (5 – 1) = X + X + X + (V – I) = X + X + X + IV = XXXIV Write 59 as roman numeral 59 = 50 + 9 = 50 + (10 – 1) = L + (X – I) = L + IX Write 183 as roman numeral 183 = 100 + 50 + 33 = 100 + 50 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 3 = C + L + X + X + X + III = CLXXXIII Write 556 as roman numeral 556 = 500 + 50 + 6 = 500 + 50 + (5 + 1) = D + L + V + I = DLVI Write 1589 as roman numeral 1589 = 1000 + 500 + 50 + 30 + 9 = 1000 + 500 + 50 + 10 + 10 + 10 + (10 – 1) = M + D + L + X + X + X + (X – I) = M + D + L + X + X + X + IX = MDLXXXIX Write 2367 as roman numeral 2367 = 1000 + 1000 + 100 + 100 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 7 = M + M + C + C + C + L + X + VII = MMCCCLXVII = LIX
