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, ...

When it comes to number prefixes or suffixes on the letters, IV could be read as "one less than four," or VIII can be read as "three more than five." So for example, XIV is 14 and XVII is 17. When it ...

I feel obligated to respond to Russell Frank’s letter Feb. 1 about Roman numerals (“Let’s abandon antiquated, confusing Roman numerals”). He feels they are outdated and primitive. As a former ...

Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

Super Bowl week is back, which means Roman numerals are once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. As one of the only institutions that still uses Roman numerals, the NFL's choice brings ...

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 ...