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weirdmageddon:

fancy-fancy-moon:

weirdmageddon:

WINDOWS XP IS CALLED XP BECAUSE XP IS 2001 IN ROMAN NUMERALS

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WHAT

“The more standard MMI was avoided, because the MRNSDK (Microsoft Roman Numeral Development Kit) doesn’t fully support the M symbol for 1000. Of course, P is not generally included in the Roman numeral system; it was quietly added between the 1.01 and subsequent 8.0 releases of the MRNSDK. Though undocumented, and possessing obscure semantics, the P extension is widely used. In any case, it is easy to verify through experimentation that XP = 2001”

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