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OCR: Roman numerals THE ROMANS used system 0f letters to represent num ibers. IN THE ROMAN system, =1 X=10 etc. The Romans wrote by adding and together. This gave the symbol VI. To write they put theI before the thus: IV They wrote 20 as XX, 30 XXX Their 50 was L; SC was XL stood for 100 for 500, and M for 1,000 numbers