On Sun, 21 May 2000 17:22:01 +0200 Stefan Matthias Aust <sma at 3plus4.de> wrote:
>BTW, what's up with numbers >= 5000?  "100000 romanString" works like a 
>charm, emitting 1000 'M's, and can correctly converted back, but, well, 
>it's not the sort of number, I'd expect ;-)  Did our Roman friends never 
>deal with larger numbers?

I believe the put a bar over a letter to represent 1000 times that letter.

Cheers,
Bob