Fun with retro-coding a Roman numeral converter—I head back to my college years and solve me homework anew! I earned a bachelor's degree in computer science back in the dawn of computing. Well, maybe ...

Ever looked at a clock and wondered what those weird symbols mean? Or seen "MCMLXIV" on an old building cornerstone and felt completely baffled? You're staring at Roman numerals—the ancient numbering ...

NEW YORK — Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek. They may know what X means, or V and I, ...

For nearly 60 years, the Super Bowl has become a central part of American culture well beyond the sphere of pro football. And for many, the Super Bowl also prompts the need to touch up on a certain ...

Roman numerals, an ancient numbering system, persist in modern contexts like film credits and architecture. This system uses seven symbols with specific values, employing repetition and position to ...

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits. Why ...

Amid all the talk about which ’80s action stars should appear in The Expendables 2—the #1 movie at the box office last weekend—everyone appears to have overlooked something: the numeral. As all ’80s ...

For the 2016 Super Bowl, the NFL is straying from its tradition of using Roman numerals and going straight for Super Bowl 50. Numerals have been in 47 of the 48 previous Super Bowls (the first game ...

What’s up, patricians? It’s your boy Jasoninus Titus Clearianus, comin’ at ya live from Ephesus with not VI, not IX, but a whopping XII reasons why we should be ignoring those newfangled Arabic ...