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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5136 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes  Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 1 of 2 31 October 2015 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
 
Several days ago I read an encyclopedia about Weather and Season, and there was an image of a sundial using Roman numerals on it. On the sundial, the number 4 wasn;t written as IV, but IIII. Initially I thought that the writing system of Roman numerals in its early age didn't allow us to substract with the left numbers. Strangely, when I read in the place of the number 9, it was still written as IX and not VIIII. How could it be like this? Edited by Monox D. I-Fly on 31 October 2015 at 6:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 2 31 October 2015 at 11:09pm | IP Logged |
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Why do some clocks use Roman numeral IIII? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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