Welcome to Super Bowl LIX. That's Super Bowl 59 for those untrained in Roman numerals, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs facing the Philadelphia Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in New Orleans. Led by ...

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits. Why ...

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will take the field for Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. But many football fanatics and casual watchers may be wondering: What the heck does LIX mean? The NFL ...

The Roman Empire might've fallen, but it didn't take their numbers down with it. Those pesky letters disguised as numbers still stick around to this day, normally wreaking havoc on people that just ...

Another year, another Super Bowl. And another Super Bowl Roman numeral. We're fast approaching Super Bowl 57 between the Eagles and the Chiefs, the official title of which is Super Bowl LVII. NFL fans ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Explore an alternative way to communicate numbers using the anchor numbers 5 and 10 and the ancient ...

When it comes to number prefixes or suffixes on the letters, IV could be read as "one less than four," or VIII can be read as "three more than five." So for example, XIV is 14 and XVII is 17. When it ...

Super Bowl LIX is the 59th iteration of the NFL championship game. The NFL uses Roman numerals for the Super Bowl to avoid confusion since the champion is recognized for the year the season started, ...

Super Bowl week is back, which means Roman numerals are once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. As one of the only institutions that still uses Roman numerals, the NFL's choice brings ...