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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (34 Across) residual (Noun) 1. (often plural) A payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing. 2. Something left after other
parts have been taken away. Synonyms: balance, remainder, residue, residuum,
rest. (Adjective) 1. Relating to or indicating a remainder. Synonym: residuary.
Derived from residue; residue is derived from Old French: from Latin:
re- back PLUS sedere to sit.
Did You Know? (62 Down) There are only seven symbols used to
represent Roman numerals. The symbols are I for 1, V for 5, X for 10, L for 50,
C for 100, D for 500, and M for 1000. A horizontal bar is drawn above the M to
represent 1,000,000. In this manner, an additional bar is added for each million
which makes it theorectically possible to write numbers to infinity using only
seven symbols. When representing quantities with these symbols, the
largest are placed to the left, therefore a smaller quantity to the
left of a larger one indicates for the user to subtract, as in IX, the
number shown to the left is of X or 10, is smaller, (I), thus you subtract the I
and know "IX" stands for nine. When smaller numerals follow larger ones, you
add, as VI=6. Two thousand years later, Roman numerals are still in use,
although they are not practical for calculations.
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