• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    How did I never know that 666 in Roman numerals was just descending letter values starting with D? That’s very cool, and makes me wonder if that is part of its origin.

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      2 days ago

      TIL, too, but it makes sense. Romans used 5 a lot so with 6 being just one number higher, you get that cascading one removed in the digit.

      DCLXVI also sounds pretty cool. Middle school me would have loved to go by \666DCLXVI666// or some such nonsense, lol.