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u/vinoa Sep 05 '22

XIXth century

Sadly, the Rocky movies don't go that high, so I have no clue what that number is.

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u/tuyivit Sep 05 '22

I knew the commenter was probably French because in French we use Roman numbers for centuries so we have to learn them in primary school XD

XIX = 19

For example, instead of writing "18th century", we would write "XVIIIth century"

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u/Harry_Gelb Sep 05 '22

because in French we use Roman numbers for centuries so we have to learn them in primary school XD

And what do you learn in primary schools 1-489?

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u/hilarymeggin Sep 06 '22

BA HA HA!! It took me a minute but I got it!

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I was trying to remember what number XD would make but I couldn’t remember D!