Decoration | Interpretation | Final Roman Numeral | Final Value |
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Italics | I=1, and the letters are powers of 10, so V=10, X=100 | MDCCCLXXI | 1131201 |
Curly brackets | Reverse the values of MDCLXVI; for example, D and V swap values. | MMMCCCL | 83 |
Small caps | Roman numerals without subtraction. All letter values are added regardless of location. | MMCMLXXXVIII | 3188 |
Dotted underline | Roman numerals in base 6, so I=1,V=3,X=6,L=18, etc. | MDXLI | 337 |
Lowercase | Interpret locations as decimal place values | DLXII | 5051011 |
Box | Concatenate each letter value as a string. |