Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I learned something new today!

I'm probably the only one in the world who didn't know about this. . .but you can translate Roman numerals into arabic here!

That's how I figured out MCMXXXVIII was 1938.

Why do I want to know such things? To find out if my main character could have read a particular book whose copyright date was in Roman numerals.

She couldn't have: the story takes place in 1927.

3 comments:

  1. Just read The Two Bobbies to my boys today. It was lovely.

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  2. You could also just ask me. Roman numerals and parsing sentences are just two of the really important, relevant things I learned in Catholic school.

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  3. Karen, now I know!!! I can remember the smaller numbers but I always get mixed up on M, C and L. Did they teach you any tricks for keeping these straight in school?

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