Comments on: Many aspects of Superbowl XLVII https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/ Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/#comment-485851 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:45:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15693#comment-485851 Clearly, this is why the Barbarians got mad at Rome and burned them to the ground.

]]> By: bad Jim https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/#comment-485850 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:33:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15693#comment-485850 I’m always puzzled by the subtractive notation. There seems to be a rule that only the next lower unit may be used, so we’ll get XLIX instead of IL, and 1999 was something like MCMXCIX instead of MIM.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/#comment-485849 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:13:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15693#comment-485849 Hahaha…

“And now, for Superbowl L”

That’s just in a few years.

I’ll bet that when they do “L” they’ll must make the next one “M” and forget about it.

]]> By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/#comment-485848 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:00:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15693#comment-485848 The only other common uses I can think of offhand are book chapters and crossword puzzles.

]]> By: ppb https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/01/many-aspects-of-superbowl-xlvii/#comment-485847 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:24:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15693#comment-485847 I think that, in a couple years when we get to Super Bowls L, LI, LII, etc, the Roman Numerals won’t have quite the same pizzazz.

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