Sunday, February 5, 2012

Roman numerals

  • Throughout the week, Mike Tanier will be out and about and filing dispatches from the Super Bowl city. INDIANAPOLIS– Like a despotic ancient empire, the N.F.L. carves its oppressive iconography into the very face of the cities it conquers.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • Roman numerals are usually arranged in descending value and added up from left to right. But when a smaller number is placed before a larger one, the smaller value is subtracted from the larger one to the right.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • From the kids-don't- know-the-darndest-things category comes the news that today's young football fans are struggling to keep track of precisely which Super Bowl is coming up this week because they can't read Roman numerals.
  • (Union-News & Sunday Republican)
  • I'm all fired up for Super Bowl Forty-something. Instantaneous translation of Roman numerals into American numerals ain't a skill I ever mastered. It's all Vs and Xx and Ls and Is and if they start throwing in a C or and M there's no hope.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Indianapolis-based Sport Graphics Inc. is handling the installation of giant Roman numerals that began going up Tuesday morning on the south side of Monument Circle.
  • (Fox 59)
  • When Super Bowl XLVI is played Sunday , the New York Giants and the New England Patriots will be looking to get the "W." But one of them will have to accept taking the dreaded "L.
  • (Tucson Citizen)
  • This weekend was the 46th Super Bowl, but the NFL uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. That's why its referred to as Super Bowl XLVI.
  • (FOXSports.com)
  • If the Renfro family wanted to add some pizazz to the name of its popular and long-running Indianapolis show, it could use Roman numerals like the Super Bowl does.
  • (Indianapolis Star)
  • Why they arent even called numbers, theyre called numerals. Whats that about anyway? It has to be a man plot. Super Bowl use of Roman numerals only started in 1971, same year women in Switzerland were finally allowed to vote. I consider this a Revenge Move.
  • (Huffington Post)

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