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You might expect that a man trailing an imposing string of Roman numerals behind him would behave with a strict sense of decorum.
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This 35-year-old FORBES cover underscores the obvious but oft-overlooked truth: While numbers convey precision, what goes on behind those numerals is anything but precise.
Titles or occupations of people, low numerals indicating groups, and focus clitics are put behind the head noun.
An example from Platts (1979): 'The horse behind Pegasus is bald', 'The horse behind the horse behind Pegasus is bald', 'The horse behind the horse behind the horse behind Pegasus is bald', … Martin (1994): 7 appeals to numerals in trying to illustrate the same point.
See numerals and numeral systems.
No, not Roman numerals.
Mix of numerals and letters.
See numerals and numeral systems: The binary system.
My phone number is in oversized numerals.
Uh!? "The 20, as in Roman numerals".
For one, Roman numerals not being used.
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