Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent ...

According to the NFL, Roman numerals were used to avoid any confusion that could happen since the championship win is recognized the year the season started and not the year in which it ended.

But the league doesn't use just any numbers. It uses Roman numerals, a rarely used counting system introduced thousands of ...

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the clunky Roman numerals—like I, II, III—that we still occasionally adopt today.