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John H.[_5_] John H.[_5_] is offline
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Default Bill Belichick has changed name of his boat to reflect Super Bowl win

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:34:14 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:39:07 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:33:26 -0500,
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:44:56 -0500,
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:24:11 -0500,

wrote:

Nice looking boat right here in south Florida:

https://sports.yahoo.com/not-wasting-time-bill-belichick-already-changed-name-boat-reflect-super-bowl-win-153459485.html
He should have left room for another "I" while he had the chance for
free.


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No need, the next would be VIX (9). There are never more than three
Is in a row with Roman Numerals.

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Nine is IX.


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Yes, my mistake. Can you imagine trying to do multiplication or long
division with roman numerals? They still managed to do some fairly
impressive engineering however.


They probably used regular numbers in their calculators for the engineering stuff. They just used
Roman Numerals to impress their descendants.