roman numerials

[Free Spirit]

What is MLMVL ??!!

[strozzi]

It is the Roman numeral for 1995, which can apparently also be written more simply as MVM.

[RCP]

Surely it's 1945?????

[j2buttonsw]

Isn't MCMXLV 1945?

[ipek]

I make it 1945 too.........

[strozzi]

Strozzi apologises for this error, but pleads mitigating circumstances. Here's the web link where I got the gen;
http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/functions/misc
/roman.php
You can't trust anyone these days. Must be the weather.

[bernardo]

The maths of MLMVL would be: M=1000; LM=1000-50=950; VL=50-5=45; total=1000+950+45=1995; *but* the number would not exist in the first place and is presumably a misprint. The correct way of translating numbers into roman numerals is one digit at a time: 1000=M; 900=1000-100=CM; 90=100-10=XC; 5=V; total=MCMXCV. The need to do this one-digit-at-a-time method means that MVM is also wrong. it may be simpler to subtract 5 from 1000, but the standard way of doing roman numerals is to do it the log way (900+90+5).

[bernardo]

P.S. 1945 would be MCMXLV, so if the original (MLMVL) was intended to be 1945, the first L must be a misprint for C (as well as the VL being non-standard).