What is Roman Numbers?

Applications of Roman Numbers in Real-Life

Roman numbers is a number system that was prevalent throughout the Roman Empire. Modern numbers today use the Arabic Numeral System (0, 1, 2, 3, and so on). Roman numbers are represented by combinations of letters. Roman numerals from 1 to 10 are given below with their specific values:

Arabic Numeral	Roman Numeral
1	I
2	II
3	III
4	IV
5	V
6	VI
7	VII
8	VIII
9	IX
10	X

Note: Roman Numbers have no Zero or nay similar number.

Basic roman number chart is added below:

Uses of Roman Numbers in Daily Life

Roman numbers are numbers used by early Romans that are still used today and have lots of applications in daily life. Roman numbers used symbols to represent various numbers, i.e. I in Roman numbers is equal to 1, V is equal to 5 and so on.

Roman numbers have various applications including, the chapters of any book that can be denotated using Roaman Numbers, the titles of Summer and Winter Olympics, and the marking of hours on clock faces, etc all are denoted using Ronam Numbers.

In this article, we will explore most of the uses of Roman numbers in real life with their various examples.