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  • #31
    Hebrew: achat, shteim, shalosh (ch-german ch)
    Arabic:wahid, ithnen, thalathah (th-english th)

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    • #32
      Danish:

      1 en (or et)
      2 to
      3 tre
      “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

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      • #33
        Originally Posted by Lindea
        Danish:

        1 en (or et)
        2 to
        3 tre

        too late!

        just kidding
        ZIPPIE FOR CHAIRMAN

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        • #34
          Hadn't seen it
          “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

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          • #35
            Originally Posted by elvaago
            I can do it in Arabian too:
            1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
            Russian:
            1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
            Portuguese:
            1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
            Latin:
            I, II, III, IV or IIII, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X.

            You're welcome!
            priceless!

            Italian: un due tre
            Portuguese: um dois três [s sounds like German sch]
            Spanish: un dos tres
            French: un deux trois

            easy

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            • #36
              Originally Posted by elvaago
              I can do it in Arabian too:
              1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
              Russian:
              1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
              Portuguese:
              1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
              Latin:
              I, II, III, IV or IIII, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X.

              You're welcome!
              Did you know the clock tower at Westminster (commonly but incorrectly known as Big Ben) is one of very, very few clocks with Roman numerals to have 4 represented as IV rather than IIII.

              Almost every other clock uses IIII, although it is only on clocks that this is done!

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              • #37
                IIII is more correct, as IV represents the Roman god Jupiter, and was not allowed to be used for anything else.

                Do tell, what /is/ the Big Ben? The clock itself?
                "I'll be back next year." --Jimmy White

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                • #38
                  Originally Posted by elvaago
                  IIII is more correct, as IV represents the Roman god Jupiter, and was not allowed to be used for anything else.

                  Do tell, what /is/ the Big Ben? The clock itself?
                  Big Ben is the main bell inside.
                  "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
                  David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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                  • #39
                    Originally Posted by elvaago
                    IIII is more correct, as IV represents the Roman god Jupiter, and was not allowed to be used for anything else.
                    But VIIII is never used for 9, etc.

                    The IV does seem more consistent witht the rest of the notations – XC rather than LXXXX for 90, CM rather than DCCCC for 900, IX for 9, MIX for 1009 rather than MVIIII etc.

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                    • #40
                      Not sure whether you need Chinese, but here are:

                      1: yi 一 (chinese)
                      2: er 二
                      3: san 三

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                      • #41
                        Originally Posted by The Statman
                        But VIIII is never used for 9, etc.

                        The IV does seem more consistent witht the rest of the notations – XC rather than LXXXX for 90, CM rather than DCCCC for 900, IX for 9, MIX for 1009 rather than MVIIII etc.
                        Allow me to quote Wikipedia.

                        Originally Posted by Wikipedia.com
                        IIII or IV?

                        The notation of Roman numerals has varied through the centuries. Originally, it was common to use IIII to represent "four", because IV represented the god Jove (and later YHWH). The subtractive notation (which uses IV instead of IIII) has become universally used only in modern times. For example, Forme of Cury, a manuscript from 1390, uses IX for "nine", but IIII for "four". Another document in the same manuscript, from 1381, uses IV and IX. A third document in the same manuscript uses both IIII and IV, and IX. Constructions such as IIIII for "five", IIX for "eight" or VV for "ten" have also been discovered. Subtractive notation arose from regular Latin usage: the number "18" was duodeviginti or “two from twenty”; the number "19" was undeviginti or “one from twenty”. The use of subtractive notation increased the complexity of performing Roman arithmetic, without conveying the benefits of a full positional notation system.
                        Likewise, on some buildings it is possible to see MDCCCCX, for example, representing 1910 instead of MCMX - notably Admiralty Arch in London. Another notable example is on Harvard Medical School's Library which reads MDCCCCIIII for 1904.
                        "I'll be back next year." --Jimmy White

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