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[Sirus]

But is it missing any digits? I mean besides M and up.

Not as far as I know.
D = 500
C = 100
L = 50
X = 10
V = 5
I = 1

[Thecard]

That would make sense, considering how Roman numerals are structured around 1s and 5s.

Still, I hadn't really thought about that until just now. But yeah, if there were more letters above M (are there? I dunno) then it would follow the same pattern, I'm pretty sure.

[Sirus]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

[Caz]

In some buildings, they miss out floor 13 because it's 'unlucky'. In asian countries they do that with floor 4, because the word sounds like "death".

Number superstition factoid of the day.

[Thecard]

Number non-superstitious factoid of the day: Did you know the numbers we use today (1, 2, 3, et al) are called Arabic numerals, even though they originated in India?

This is actually really fun to use with teachers. I asked my German teacher if she wanted us to write out numbers on an assignment, or just use Arabic numerals, and she ended up just giving up.

[mastahcheese]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

Supposedly, the number 666 is associated with Demons of the Apocalypse, and that people who are marked with 666 will be protected/have control over those monsters.

Basically, it's Dark Age witch hunting bullcrap.

[Vector]

Also, this Discrete Mathematics book, which I've only just now started reading (because I am a useless piece of shit), is good stuff. Formal logic is at once straightforward and confusing. It is just so difficult to internalize that A->B is true if A is false, no matter what. I understand why they did it that way, kind of, but the notion of "I can't know" is just so intuitive to me that it constantly asserts itself as the answer to that sort of thing. Ah well, this is just the very beginning, so I'll need to get over that.

!!

I am so~ happy for you!  Good luck!

[Xantalos]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

Supposedly, the number 666 is associated with Demons of the Apocalypse, and that people who are marked with 666 will be protected/have control over those monsters.

Basically, it's Dark Age witch hunting bullcrap.

Besides, 999 is a cooler number.

[Rose]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

Supposedly, the number 666 is associated with Demons of the Apocalypse, and that people who are marked with 666 will be protected/have control over those monsters.

Basically, it's Dark Age witch hunting bullcrap.

Besides, 999 is a cooler number.

You mean IM?

[EnigmaticHat]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

According to one of my Lit teachers, back in the first century 666 was used refer to Emperor Nero, because of some quirk of Latin where you could convert his initials to letters and add them up or something.  This was a while ago, but this teacher speaks Latin so I'm sure it made sense to him.  Anyway, the Christian stories that started the whole number of the beast thing were apparently literally referring to Nero, because Christians hated him that much.

[Sirus]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

According to one of my Lit teachers, back in the first century 666 was used refer to Emperor Nero, because of some quirk of Latin where you could convert his initials to letters and add them up or something.  This was a while ago, but this teacher speaks Latin so I'm sure it made sense to him.  Anyway, the Christian stories that started the whole number of the beast thing were apparently literally referring to Nero, because Christians hated him that much.

Neato.

[Tiruin]

In some buildings, they miss out floor 13 because it's 'unlucky'. In asian countries they do that with floor 4, because the word sounds like "death".

Number superstition factoid of the day.

Eh? Really? It's usually the 13th floor that's cut out and not floor 4 here

...Four = Death. Erm, I believe that is derived from a single distinct language given that notion.

Also, this Discrete Mathematics book, which I've only just now started reading (because I am a useless piece of shit), is good stuff. Formal logic is at once straightforward and confusing. It is just so difficult to internalize that A->B is true if A is false, no matter what. I understand why they did it that way, kind of, but the notion of "I can't know" is just so intuitive to me that it constantly asserts itself as the answer to that sort of thing. Ah well, this is just the very beginning, so I'll need to get over that.

!!

I am so~ happy for you!  Good luck!

Sounds more like a logic book Bauglir
Regardless: *happies*
You can DO THIS.

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

According to one of my Lit teachers, back in the first century 666 was used refer to Emperor Nero, because of some quirk of Latin where you could convert his initials to letters and add them up or something.  This was a while ago, but this teacher speaks Latin so I'm sure it made sense to him.  Anyway, the Christian stories that started the whole number of the beast thing were apparently literally referring to Nero, because Christians hated him that much.

+1 to this. Researching history here: Yeah. Nero was such an [expletive redacted] because of his act(s?) against the people that hating him was a norm.

Also persecution :S

[Steelmagic]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

According to one of my Lit teachers, back in the first century 666 was used refer to Emperor Nero, because of some quirk of Latin where you could convert his initials to letters and add them up or something.  This was a while ago, but this teacher speaks Latin so I'm sure it made sense to him.  Anyway, the Christian stories that started the whole number of the beast thing were apparently literally referring to Nero, because Christians hated him that much.

Neato.

No his name was NERO. That was terrible I'm sorry.

[Sirus]

Right, but 666 is one of those numbers seen as "unlucky" in many places. I don't know if the ancient Romans saw it that way, but I intend to use it for NaNoWriMo and the fact that it looks really good and is easy to remember when translated to the numerals is icing on the cake.

According to one of my Lit teachers, back in the first century 666 was used refer to Emperor Nero, because of some quirk of Latin where you could convert his initials to letters and add them up or something.  This was a while ago, but this teacher speaks Latin so I'm sure it made sense to him.  Anyway, the Christian stories that started the whole number of the beast thing were apparently literally referring to Nero, because Christians hated him that much.

Neato.

No his name was NERO. That was terrible I'm sorry.

So terrible that I chuckled.

[Chaoswizkid]

In some buildings, they miss out floor 13 because it's 'unlucky'. In asian countries they do that with floor 4, because the word sounds like "death".

Number superstition factoid of the day.

Eh? Really? It's usually the 13th floor that's cut out and not floor 4 here

...Four = Death. Erm, I believe that is derived from a single distinct language given that notion.

Pretty sure it's only Japanese. "Four" in Japanese can either be "Yon" or "Shi". "Shi" is also the word for "Death".