Veldek

[Veldek]

Here's my entry.

[dops7107]

Here's my entry.

Nice twist Valdek! It's a shame there isn't a good short-hand for "million" (like "k" for 1,000) because all those zeroes, in yours and others' efforts, are a little distracting from a design POV.

[Veldek]

Nice twist Valdek! It's a shame there isn't a good short-hand for "million" (like "k" for 1,000) because all those zeroes, in yours and others' efforts, are a little distracting from a design POV.Yeah, I thought about using an m first, but decided to use the 0's nevertheless.

[qpawn]

Very clever! I think it looks fine with zeros. :)

[yellow]

I had Googled for a Roman Numeral for "million" but came up unsatisfied.

[tag]

I had Googled for a Roman Numeral for "million" but came up unsatisfied.

According to what I remember and the sites I saw, to get Roman Numerals higher than Thousands(M), you would need to put a bar over the numerals, which effectively multiplies the numeral by 1000.

So instead of MMMMM, you could use a V-bar, such as:
_
V = 5,000

And for one million you'd have the following called an M-bar:

_
M = 1,000,000

Though I bet most people that see the icon would be like 'what in the...'

[Kobushi]

wouldn't it just be 2Mp?

(1 Megapost = 1 million posts)

and on to Gigaposts....Teraposts....:)

[yellow]

According to what I remember and the sites I saw, to get Roman Numerals higher than Thousands(M), you would need to put a bar over the numerals, which effectively multiplies the numeral by 1000.

Yup.. and bars to the left and right as well, which left me unsatisfied..

[Veldek]

Yup.. and bars to the left and right as well, which left me unsatisfied..It's really no wonder that the Romans didn't have good mathematicians. With these numbers, calculations must have been impossible...

[iMeowbot]

Arrgh, Déjà Vu! Theere wasn't an official Roman standard for the numbers, and some of the "Roman" numbers we use today are more recent inventions. Rerun (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=993272&postcount=11).