roman numeral conversion calculatorthis calculator converts roman numerals to arabic numerals and vice versa. roman numerals use the following numbers: i=1, v=5, x=10, l=50, c=100, d=500 and m=1000. most of the time, they are just sorted and added. exception: when a numeric character is to the left of a numeric character with a larger value, the smaller value needs to be subtracted.