how do you do algebra with roman numerals

[Nolte]

cos if x is 10 and x is x then what the fuck is xx ?

[Talleyrand]

10x

[Nolte]

but there roman and they dont have 10's they only have x's

[yoof1980]

x = /

[LDD]

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[Frank Motherfucking Booth]

You can diffrentiate roman numerals from letters with top and bottom parallel lines.

Like this
http://www.charmfactory.com/images/CF7363_lg.jpg

You can also capitalize roman numerals and leave variables in lower-case.

[velcro veneer]

x = /
no that's division, jesus fucking christ man

don't the romans just write xxxx instead of 4xx?

and by 4xx of course i mean iv x x

[Talleyrand]

How much algebra existed in the time of the Romans anyway? I thought the word "algebra" came from Arabic and was used with Arabic numerals. School me someone.

[Frank Motherfucking Booth]

How much algebra existed in the time of the Romans anyway? I thought the word "algebra" came from Arabic and was used with Arabic numerals. School me someone.

Yes that is where the word Algebra came from. But as a concept of mathematics algebra has to have existed ever since the concept of a variable has.

Pythagoras? Archimedes?

[Talleyrand]

Yes that is where the word Algebra came from. But as a concept of mathematics algebra has to have existed ever since the concept of a variable has.

Pythagoras?

I was thinking of Pythagoras too, which was at the very birth of Greek math, but the theorem is not exactly algebra, although it is a variable. Greek numerals though were closer to Arabic rather than Roman numerals. I think the Greeks actually used the letters of the alphabet as numbers, which lends itself easily to variables.

[unknown]

i think the sinbad films were ahead of there time.

[dj 2way]

fuck this thread

[velcro veneer]

they fed christians to lions instead and said algebra was for nerdy faggots (greeks, as mentioned above)

[Talleyrand]

fuck this thread

no

[Mr Unknown]

i dont know? maybe to work out the answer replace the roman numerals with numbers and once you get the answer express it in roman numerals? its cheating a bit i guess?

[AWESOME J]

http://i33.tinypic.com/2ush9ua.jpg

[Mr Unknown]

the above pic says a pocket square by charvet, um this may be a stupid question but what is a pocket square?

[AWESOME J]

the above pic says a pocket square by charvet, um this may be a stupid question but what is a pocket square?

its like a napkin that goes in your shirt pocket. Andre 3000 rocked them back in the Love Below era.

[Revenant]

I've always wanted to do my tax return in Roman numerals.

[Mr Unknown]

its like a napkin that goes in your shirt pocket. Andre 3000 rocked them back in the Love Below era.

Ah now i know what it is, just never knew thats what they were called

http://www.samhober.com/howtofoldpocketsquares/Onepointsuit3-1.jpg

I've always wanted to do my tax return in Roman numerals.

We have some clients that sign there tax returns with an x. They dont have an english written signiture so they use x.

[Frank Motherfucking Booth]

Well Talley I think youre right to suggest that there wasnt much algebra being used in during the span of the Roman empire anyway.

Algebraic concepts can be traced back to ancient Babylonia and Egypt, but algebra itself didnt come into being as a mathematical method until like 500-800 AD with Diophantus of Alexandria and later Brahmagupta in India. After those two came a text by a Persian who called it "Al-Jabr" and some dispute still remains as to whether the method's invention can be best attributed to him or Diophantus.

Either way, the Roman empire withered away around 300 AD or so.

[Sardu]

To answer your question: you dont do algebra with roman numberals

[sTePeAsY]

Archimedes is a cool name.

[Frank Motherfucking Booth]

Archimedes is a cool name.

Yeah it always makes me think of the owl in The Sword in the Stone.

[sTePeAsY]

Yeah it always makes me think of the owl in The Sword in the Stone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was going to say that but got lazy with the typing. hahaha that's so awesome.

What an awesome fucking movie.

[Frank Motherfucking Booth]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was going to say that but got lazy with the typing. hahaha that's so awesome.

What an awesome fucking movie.

"Hockety-pockety-wockety-wack!..." God I fuckin loved that movie when I was a kid.

Merlin vs. Mad Madam Mim FTW
The starving wolf in the beginning was jokes

[Bigradgeandy]

nolte has lost all interest in this thread

[PU$$YCONTIN]

Hannibal beat the romans hard using war elephants.

[Talleyrand]

Hannibal beat the romans hard using war elephants.

Most of his elephants died and the rest were nearly useless after he crossed the Alps into Italy. He used superior generalship and total war to decimate the Romans in Italy, he was a bad motherfucker.

The Battle of Cannae is some ill shit, his tactics and maneuvers buried the Romans in a bloodbath (nearly literally).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae

I highlighted the good shit:
Hannibal stood with his men in the weak center and held them to a controlled retreat. The crescent of Hispanic and Gallic troops buckled inwards as they gradually withdrew. Knowing the superiority of the Roman infantry, Hannibal had instructed his infantry to withdraw deliberately, thus creating an even tighter semicircle around the attacking Roman forces. By doing so, he had turned the strength of the Roman infantry into a weakness. Furthermore, while the front ranks were gradually advancing forward, the bulk of the Roman troops began to lose their cohesion, as they began crowding themselves into the growing gap. Soon they were compacted together so closely that they had little space to wield their weapons. In pressing so far forward in their desire to destroy the retreating and collapsing line of Hispanic and Gallic troops, the Romans had ignored (possibly due to the dust previously mentioned) the African troops that stood uncommitted on the projecting ends of this now reversed-crescent.[27] This also gave the Carthaginian cavalry time to drive the Roman cavalry off on both flanks and attack the Roman center in the rear. The Roman infantry, now stripped of both its flanks, formed a wedge that drove deeper and deeper into the Carthaginian semicircle, driving itself into an alley that was formed by the African Infantry stationed at the echelons.[5] At this decisive point, Hannibal ordered his African Infantry to turn inwards and advance against the Roman flanks, creating an encirclement of the Roman infantry in one of the earliest known examples of the pincer movement.

When the Carthaginian cavalry attacked the Romans in the rear, and the African flanking echelons had assailed them on their right and left, the advance of the Roman infantry was brought to an abrupt halt. The trapped Romans were enclosed in a pocket with no means of escape. The Carthaginians created a wall and began destroying the entrapped Romans as discussed earlier. Polybius claims that, "as their outer ranks were continually cut down, and the survivors forced to pull back and huddle together, they were finally all killed where they stood."

Recognizing that his ploy had resulted in near-total victory and still needing to consolidate his gains and take only those few prisoners who would be willing to genuinely defect, Hannibal ordered his men to speedily cut the hamstrings of surviving enemies and move onto the next available Roman, and then later in the day — when there was no more able-bodied resistance — to butcher the lamed Romans at their leisure.

As Livy describes, "So many thousands of Romans were lying … Some, whom their wounds, pinched by the morning cold, had roused, as they were rising up, covered with blood, from the midst of the heaps of slain, were overpowered by the enemy. Some were found with their heads plunged into the earth, which they had excavated; having thus, as it appeared, made pits for themselves, and having suffocated themselves."[5] Nearly six hundred legionaries were slaughtered each minute until darkness brought an end to the bloodletting.[29] Only 14,000 Roman troops managed to escape (most of whom had cut their way through to the nearby town of Canusium). At the end of the day, out of the original force of 87,000 Roman troops, only about one out of every six men was still alive.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Battle_cannae_destruction.gif

[PU$$YCONTIN]

yea it was pretty crazy when they built those rafts to carry the elephants across the river. it's fucking amazing when you think of what was going through their heads when they thought they could just walk elephants over all those mountains n shit without anyone dying. he lost 30,000 soldiers on that trip and i think 10,000 archers or some shit in the mountains. that's amazing that he still pulled off a win against the romans after all those hardships they faced on the way over there.

[Talleyrand]

yea it was pretty crazy when they built those rafts to carry the elephants across the river. it's fucking amazing when you think of what was going through their heads when they thought they could just walk elephants over all those mountains n shit without anyone dying. he lost 30,000 soldiers on that trip and i think 10,000 archers or some shit in the mountains. that's amazing that he still pulled off a win against the romans after all those hardships they faced on the way over there.

Yeah it is amazing. It was probably the boldest campaign in ancient history, despite Alexander's forays into India or Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

He separated himself from any plausible supply line and replenished his army by ravaging the land and enlisting defectors (there was a healthy amount of Italians who were dissatisfied with Roman rule). He is the godfather of the pincers maneuver. He grew up hating the Romans and had a simplicity of mind that focused him like a laser of tearing Rome's shit up. He's one of those dudes that just stomped right over shit that was in his way, not giving a fuck.

[furst]

Yeah it is amazing. It was probably the boldest campaign in ancient history, despite Alexander's forays into India or Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

He separated himself from any plausible supply line and replenished his army by ravaging the land and enlisting defectors (there was a healthy amount of Italians who were dissatisfied with Roman rule). He is the godfather of the pincers maneuver. He grew up hating the Romans and had a simplicity of mind that focused him like a laser of tearing Rome's shit up. He's one of those dudes that just stomped right over shit that was in his way, not giving a fuck.
that's a killer mental picture n shit you painted dawg

[Talleyrand]

Hannibal was a cracka n shit dun.

[furst]

Hannibal was a cracka n shit dun.
wasn't he nip?

[Talleyrand]

wasn't he nip?

He was Phoenician, as were most Carthaginians, but he probably looked Arabic or like people from North Africa today.