concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat was one thing your teacher did that you still can't forgive them for?message-squaremessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down111
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minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up98arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoMy primaryschool maths teacher taught us roman numerals and one of the tasks we got was to write out the current year in roman numerals. I came up with MCMXCVIII … to which he smugly replied that it’s wrong and the romans were a lot more clever and it’s just IIMM (take 2 off 2000). Years later I learned that he was quite wrong about that and my answer is in fact the only correct one.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·1 year agoTFW your school insists you learn something utterly pointless and then the teacher teaches it completely wrong.
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoIIMM just looks so silly. If that were allowed, then why would the Super Bowl roman numerals be so long in the 1900s? (I don’t even watch football.)
My primaryschool maths teacher taught us roman numerals and one of the tasks we got was to write out the current year in roman numerals.
I came up with MCMXCVIII … to which he smugly replied that it’s wrong and the romans were a lot more clever and it’s just IIMM (take 2 off 2000).
Years later I learned that he was quite wrong about that and my answer is in fact the only correct one.
TFW your school insists you learn something utterly pointless and then the teacher teaches it completely wrong.
IIMM just looks so silly. If that were allowed, then why would the Super Bowl roman numerals be so long in the 1900s?
(I don’t even watch football.)