Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

The " X " denotes the Roman numeral " ten ", as this was the tenth such station to be opened by the Secret Intelligence Service.

The unit MBtu was defined as one thousand Btu, presumably from the Roman numeral system where " M " stands for one thousand ( 1, 000 ).

There are sometimes differences ; for example, the Germans have used " J " instead of " I " for iodine, so the character would not be confused with a Roman numeral.

* 8 / xi / 03, 8. xi. 03, 8-xi. 03, or 8. XI. 2003 ( using the Roman numeral for the month ) – This is usually confined to handwriting only and is not put into any form of print.

* CD, the Roman numeral for 400

* CCC, Roman numeral for 300

Decimal notation often refers to a base-10 positional notation such as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system ; however, it can also be used more generally to refer to non-positional systems such as Roman or Chinese numerals which are also based on powers of ten.

* New York State classifies felonies by letter, with some classes divided into sub-classes by Roman numeral ; classes range from Class E ( encompassing the least severe felonies ) through Classes D, C, B, and A – II up to Class A – I ( encompassing the most severe ).

The last names of the respective heads of government are shown, and the Roman numeral stands for the cabinets.

The trade name Vicodin refers to hydrocodone being six times stronger than codeine by mouth, as in the Roman numeral VI.

Hence, Fighter Wing 1 was JG 1, its first Gruppe ( group ) was I ./ JG 1, using a Roman numeral for the Gruppe number only, and its first Staffel ( squadron ) was 1 ./ JG 1.

* Roman numeral for 1050

The ancient Egyptian numeral system was of this type, and the Roman numeral system was a modification of this idea.

( For different methods of expressing numbers with symbols, such as the Roman numerals, see numeral systems.

The Trumpler scheme gives a cluster a three part designation, with a Roman numeral from I-IV indicating its concentration and detachment from the surrounding star field ( from strongly to weakly concentrated ), an Arabic numeral from 1 to 3 indicating the range in brightness of members ( from small to large range ), and p, m or r to indication whether the cluster is poor, medium or rich in stars.

Remarks in Part II are referenced by their Roman numeral or their page number in the third edition.

replaced briefly by MPPL ( MultiPurpose Programming Language ) and, in 1965, with PL / I ( with a Roman numeral “ I ” ).

The X in the name represents an unknown and is pronounced as the letter, as opposed to the Roman numeral for 10 ( At the time, Planet X would have been the ninth planet ).

** Roman numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value

The Roman numeral LXX ( seventy ) is commonly used as an abbreviation, as are or G.

This system of ' counter casting ' continued into the late Roman empire and in medieval Europe, and persisted in limited use into the nineteenth century.

The beads in the shorter grooves denote fives – five units, five tens etc., essentially in a bi-quinary coded decimal system, obviously related to the Roman numerals.

He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome, and rebuilt much of the City during his reign.

AUC is a year-numbering system used by some ancient Roman historians to identify particular Roman years.

Renaissance editors sometimes added AUC to Roman manuscripts they published, giving the false impression that the Romans usually numbered their years using the AUC system.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

On the continent of Europe among some civil law systems ( i. e. those deriving from Roman law or the Napoleonic Code ), the inquisitorial system may be used for some types of cases.

The hieroglyphic system for Egyptian numerals, like the later Roman numerals, descended from tally marks used for counting.

The illegal use of elements of the Roman rite, the use of candles, vestments and incense, practices known as Ritualism, had become widespread and led to the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 which established a new system of discipline, intending to bring the ' Romanisers ' into conformity.

* The Roman number system was very cumbersome because there was no concept of zero ( or empty space ).

Essentially, every country that was colonised at some time by England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom uses common law except those that were formerly colonised by other nations, such as Quebec ( which follows the law of France in part ), South Africa and Sri Lanka ( which follow Roman Dutch law ), where the prior civil law system was retained to respect the civil rights of the local colonists.

Roman Dutch Commons law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana.

* Civil law ( legal system ) ( or " Continental law "), any of the various systems or codes of law which are derived from Roman law historically

The Romans systematized law and applied their system across the Roman Empire.

The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating evolution of modern European civil law traditions.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

The vast system of Roman aqueducts also made extensive use of hydraulic cement.

Dumézil offered Roman empire with its flamens, legions and peasants, along with the caste system in India to illustrate his theory.

** Romano-Germanic subgroup ( comprising those legal systems where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law-see also Civil law ( legal system ))

The breakup of the Holy Roman Empire and the downfall of feudalism led, not more than two centuries ago, to the surge of nationalism.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

in other words its existence belongs to the period of Roman Britain.

Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

Ludie had a cigar box full of marbles and shooters, and a Roman candle from last Fourth of July.

Jacopo Galli introduced him into several Roman homes.

He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.

He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief, Roman, and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

The Northfield churches include the following: Alliance, Congregational-Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran ( Norwegian, Danish, Missouri Synod, and Bethel ), Methodist, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic.

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

It is possible to identify the test procedure completely with a code consisting of a Roman Numeral, a letter, and an Arabic number.

To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

In Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,, in 1952, a Roman Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned Parenthood Federation or to resign from the hospital staff.

He thereby precipitated a bitter controversy involving Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics that continued for two months, until the city's Board of Hospitals lifted the ban on birth-control therapy.

A year later in Albany, N.Y., a Roman Catholic hospital barred an orthopedic surgeon because of his connection with the Planned Parenthood Association.

The Roman Catholic Church, however, sanctions a much more liberal policy on family planning.

The Roman Catholic Church sanctions only abstention or the rhythm method, also known as the use of the infertile or safe period.