[TenTec] The Titan IIII IV????

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:56:00AM +0000, Charles Harpole wrote:
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>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.
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