At 09:58 PM 4/21/99 +0001, Hans Franke wrote:
o Only one
smaller numeral can be written first. So
XIIX is not valid for 18.
debending on the context again, there are examples of historic
usage of this form - althrough all rules/frameworks of rules I
know also prohibit this.
And no doubt some poor slave just finished chisling in all the closing
stock prices for the Roman Stock Exchange and some spelling weenie piped up
and said only, "You misspelled 18 on line 30 there."
--Chuck