Cross Country... XC
It is a 4 part tattoo across his fingers reading "IC XC NI KA" which means "Jesus Christ is victorious" in the Greek Orthodox Church.
The tattoos are "IC XC NI KA," a monogram for the name of Jesus Christ.
Because if XC = 90 and 9 = IX then it surely follows that XC+IX = XCIX in the same way that 90+9 = 99 but this is inconsistet with the real facts which are:- Fact I: XC+IX = IC because (100-10)+(10-1) = (100-1) Fact II: The Latin word for IC is 'undecentum' meaning one from a hundred Fact III: More convincing evidence is available Fact IV: XCIX for 99 is wrong and IC is correct Fact V: Numerals are calculated differently today than in Roman times
That is not a properly formed Roman numeral. CC =200 XC = 90 IC = 99??? which is correctly indicated with XCIX
Today we write out 99 in Roman numerals as XCIX because XC = 90 and IX = 9. Therefore it logically follows that XC+IX = XCIX as in the case of Hindu-Arabic numerals. But the Roman numeral system does not contain a zero figure for positional place value purposes. Instead the Romans most probably worked out 99 as IC because:- XC is a simplification of LXXXX IX is a simplification of VIIII So LXXXX+VIIII = LXXXXVIIII and by placing I to both sides of these numerals they can be simplified to IC in fact the Latin word for IC is 'undecentum' which literally means one from a hundred.
CMXCV stands for 995. CM=900 XC=90 V=5
M is 1000, CM is 900, XC is 90 and II is 2. MCMXCII is 1992.
It is: XC = 100-10 = 90
The Roman numeral XC represents the number 90
XC is the usual convention (X =10 subtracted from C = 100). More rarely seen is LXXXX (L=50 and XXXX = 40)
XC usually stands for Cross-Country, so I'm guessing that XCO is a version of X-COuntry.