Superbowl and roman numberal

jdanton · 02-04-2008, 07:47 AM

I asked my friend why they use Roman Numerals to keep track of superbowls.

The are getting so complex.

He responded that Roman Numerals are used for historical puposes and they are really quite simple

So I gave him this mulitplication problem:

XVIII
x XIV

I had to remind him that it would be cheating to convert this to 18 x 14.

I think he is not as comfortable with Roman Numerals as he thought he was.

Sean · 02-04-2008, 09:30 AM

Yes but it would not be cheating to take XVIII, add it fourteen times

_______________
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
XVIII
__________

CCLII

AuCanada · 02-04-2008, 11:00 AM

It won't be so complex when they get to Superbowl L.

Malkavian · 02-04-2008, 02:31 PM

I can't believe i missed Superbowl XXX

Kanadesaga · 02-04-2008, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Malkavian

I can't believe i missed Superbowl XXX

Well it was 12 years ago.

djack · 02-04-2008, 10:50 PM

I was just thinking last night how utterly fucking stupid that is. XLII or 42. What the fuck?
It's a ball game. Nothing historic about it. Who won the first Olympics? That would be I or whatever is Greek for 1.

GurnBlanston · 02-05-2008, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kanadesaga

Well it was 12 years ago.

I remembered my spam filter left my inbox void of Superbowl emails that year.

Malkavian · 02-05-2008, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kanadesaga

Well it was 12 years ago.

Yeah, i know, i was very horny at the time.

Jonesy · 02-05-2008, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djack

I was just thinking last night how utterly fucking stupid that is. XLII or 42. What the fuck?
It's a ball game. Nothing historic about it. Who won the first Olympics? That would be I or whatever is Greek for 1.

There's nothing more important than football. In 10 million trillion years, we won't remember anything except Tom Brady and Randy Moss choking.

jdanton · 02-06-2008, 04:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonesy

There's nothing more important than football. In 10 million trillion years, we won't remember anything except Tom Brady and Randy Moss choking.

It's hard to throw when you're running for your life or lying on your back.

I didn't see the interviews, but I'm told the coach was kind of nasty, but Brady was quite the gentleman, as always.

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