Roman numeral/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Roman numeral.

Numerical symbols formed with the Roman letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, representing respectively the numbers 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000, used by the ancient Romans and still used today in certain formal contexts.