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==== Other ==== * There are some examples of year numbers after 1000 written as two Roman numerals 1–99, e.g. 1613 as {{rn|XVIXIII}}, corresponding to the common reading "sixteen thirteen" of such year numbers in English, or 1519 as {{rn|X{{Overset|C|V}}XIX}} as in [[French language|French]] ''quinze-cent-dix-neuf'' (fifteen-hundred and nineteen), and similar readings in other languages.<ref name="gach1862">{{Cite journal |last=Gachard |first=M. |date=1862 |title=II. Analectes historiques, neuvième série (n<sup>os</sup> CCLXI-CCLXXXIV) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bcrh_0770-6707_1862_num_31_3_3033 |journal=Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Historie |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=345–554 |doi=10.3406/bcrh.1862.3033}} <br />Page 347: {{lang|fr|Lettre de Philippe le Beau aux échevins..., quote: "Escript en nostre ville de Gand, le XXIIII<sup>me</sup> de febvrier, l'an IIII<sup>XX</sup>XIX [quatre-vingt-dix-neuf {{=}} 99].}}" <br />Page 356: {{lang|fr|Lettre de l'achiduchesse Marguerite au conseil de Brabant..., quote: "... Escript à Bruxelles, le dernier jour de juing anno XV<sup>c</sup>XIX [1519].}}" <br />Page 374: {{lang|fr|Letters patentes de la rémission ... de la ville de Bruxelles, quote}}: "{{lang|nl|... Op heden, tweentwintich ['twenty-two'] daegen in decembri, anno vyfthien hondert tweendertich}} ['fifteen hundred thirty-two'] {{lang|nl|... Gegeven op ten vyfsten dach in deser jegewoirdige maent van decembri anno XV tweendertich [1532] vorschreven.}}" <br />Page 419: {{lang|fr|Acte du duc de Parme portant approbation..., quote: "Faiet le XV<sup>me</sup> de juillet XV<sup>c</sup> huytante-six [1586].}}".</ref> * In some French texts from the 15th century and later, one finds constructions like {{rn|IIII<sup>XX</sup>XIX}} for 99, reflecting the French reading of that number as {{lang|fr|quatre-vingt-dix-neuf}} (four-score and nineteen).<ref name=gach1862/> Similarly, in some English documents one finds, for example, 77 written as "{{rn|iii<sup>xx</sup>xvii}}" (which could be read "three-score and seventeen").<ref name=salt1923>{{Cite book |last=Salter |first=Herbert Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfNAAAAAYAAJ&q=iiixx |title=Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis 1483–1521 |date=1923 |publisher=Oxford Historical Society |volume=76}} 544 pages. Page 184 has the computation in pounds:shillings:pence (li:s:d) x:iii:iiii + xxi:viii:viii + xlv:xiiii:i = iii<sup>xx</sup>xvii:vi:i, i.e. 10:3:4 + 21:8:8 + 45:14:1 = 77:6:1.</ref> * A medieval accounting text from 1301 renders numbers like 13,573 as "{{rn|{{sc|XIII. M. V. C. III. XX. XIII}}}}", that is, "13×1000 + 5×100 + 3×20 + 13".<ref name="wade1865">{{Cite encyclopedia |chapter=E Duo Codicibus Ceratis Johannis de Sancto Justo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrxuEwPNWD4C&pg=PA530 |date=1865 |orig-date=1301 |last1=de Wailly |last2=Delisle | title=Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Par Martin Bouquet: Contenant la deuxieme livraison des monumens des regnes de saint Louis, de Philippe le Hardi, de Philippe le bel, de Louis X, de Philippe V et de Charles IV ... Jusqu'en MCCCXXVIII. Tome Vingt-Deuxième |trans-chapter=From Two Texts in Wax by John of St Just |encyclopedia=Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France |lang=la |volume=22 |quote-page=530 |quote= SUMMA totalis, XIII. M. V. C. III. XX. XIII. l. III s. XI d. |trans-quote=Sum total, 13 thousand 5 hundred 3 score 13 livres, 3 sous, 11 deniers.}}</ref>
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