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The smallest value Roman numeral using each symbol only once would be MCDXLIV = 1444
Nowadays 1444 in Roman numerals are MCDXLIV But the ancient Romans would have wrote them out quite differently
With great difficulty because 1444 in Roman numerals in today's terms are MCDXLIV and to add them to DLV (555) is an almost impossible task. But the Romans probably calculated the above numbers on a abacus calculating board as:- MCCCCXXXXIIII + DLV = MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII = IMM (-1+2000=1999) when simplified. The rules governing today's Roman numeral system were not the same rules in which the Romans themselves actually used because they were changed in the Middle Ages presumably to make it easier to convert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals that were gradually being introduced into Western Europe.
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