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From: adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: 1990 in Roman Numerals
Message-ID: <859@mti.mti.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 22:40:22 GMT
Reply-To: adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy)
Organization: Micro Technology, Anaheim, CA
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Here's an interesting question somebody brought up here.  Will 1990
be expressed as MCMXC or MXM in roman numerals?  TeX says MCMXC, but
MXM seems to make more sense.  Is there a ``standard''?

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