The Romans did but these letters or numerals represented numbers.
Roman numerals are numbers that used to be used instead of the numbers today. They are letters that stand for numbers. Examples: III : 3 V : 5 XI : 11 LX : 60
because the Ancient Romans did not have symbols for numbers.
Roman numerals were the symbols developed by the Ancient Romans for counting and other numbering activities. The Romans used them because they developed them and that was what they knew. What do you use numbers for? They used them for the exact same things, instead of the kind of numbers we use, which are known as Arabic numerals.
They are system of letters used for calculations instead of numbers which were used by the Romans. M=1000, D=500, C=100, L=50, X=10, V=5, I=1
The Romans did but these letters or numerals represented numbers.
Roman numerals are numbers that used to be used instead of the numbers today. They are letters that stand for numbers. Examples: III : 3 V : 5 XI : 11 LX : 60
because the Ancient Romans did not have symbols for numbers.
Roman numerals were the symbols developed by the Ancient Romans for counting and other numbering activities. The Romans used them because they developed them and that was what they knew. What do you use numbers for? They used them for the exact same things, instead of the kind of numbers we use, which are known as Arabic numerals.
They are system of letters used for calculations instead of numbers which were used by the Romans. M=1000, D=500, C=100, L=50, X=10, V=5, I=1
because they did not no numbers exist
Romans used Roman numerals as their form of numbers. Romans needed Roman Numerals because they needed numbers to count, tell time, and do other things in life that involved numbers. Roman numerals were used because they could all be scribed using a flat chisel i.e X I V M.
arabs
the Romans did not knew the 1 2 3. so they used it for everything that involved numbers.
i call them roman numrals becaus Romans used them and they were numbers
I believe it was because Romans could not count numbers so they created roman numerals which were almost like numbers in order to tell time and count.
The Roman numeral system was derived from the Etruscan numeral system and the Etruscans once ruled the Romans. The Etruscan numerals consisted of symmetrical symbols to represent certain numerical values and when the Romans came to power they replaced these symbols with letters that were easier to write out.