[trystan830]

XXIV

[Merskelly Metalien]

XXV

[trystan830]

XXVI

[Coda]

XXVII

I was recently talking to some of my friends on Discord and we worked out how to do addition, subtraction, and multiplication with Roman numerals. We're such nerds.

[trystan830]

XXVIII

that's actually awesome

[Arikana]

XXIX

[trystan830]

XXX
30

[Coda]

X * III + I

It's actually not too complicated. For addition, you just stick all the letters together and then fix up cases where it breaks the rules (e.g. IIII -> IV). For subtraction, you take out matching letters, and you can replace a letter with multiple copies of a smaller letter (e.g X -> VV) if you need to.

Multiplication is a bunch of replacements. You multiply the whole first number by each letter in the second number, so X * III is X, X, and X, which you stick together to be XXX. Once you're done with that, you go do the same fixup that you had to do for addition. You only have to memorize a fairly small times table (V * V = XV, for example).

[Merskelly Metalien]

:D Ahh I understand. *brain begins to snarl at math* 8} ...uhh,

X * III + II?
(32)

<x'} Aaaa, suddenly I want to dig a hole and hide in it. Hahaha!

[mdom]

VI²

[trystan830]

XXXIV

that's still pretty cool, Coda =)

[Coda]

VI² is 36, not 33. Oops. (Also, shouldn't it be VI^II?) Try again from the beginning.

[trystan830]

ah pooh.

one

[Merskelly Metalien]

TWO o-o

[trystan830]

three

[Merskelly Metalien]

four