TenTec
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TenTec] The Titan IIII IV????

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Titan IIII IV????
From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
Reply-to: gsm@mendelson.com, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:27:28 +0200
List-post: <tentec@contesting.com">mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:56:00AM +0000, Charles Harpole wrote:
>
>Roman numbers for 4 is written "IV."

Not in Rome. The Roman numeral for 4 is IIII. When someone decided that
children could be taught simple arithmetic using Roman numerals in
the 20th century, they changed IIII to IV to make it easier to understand.

Ten-Tec has always used the modern method, clockmakers don't.

Geoff.
-- 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM
_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>