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Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real. -- Roy H. Williams
How do you write zero in Roman numerals? -- George Carlin
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. -- Rob Pike
I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals. -- Bob Hope
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. -- Henry Spencer
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. -- Joan Rivers
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't. -- Ian Stewart
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers. -- Evelyn Waugh
Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city. -- Toni Morrison
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. -- Will Durant
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal. -- Dan Meyer
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals. -- Woody Allen

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