IV:XX blaze it cinaedus

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with Arabic numbers?

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shakira law or something

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  • skbo@lu.skbo.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    l read once that it was written as roman numerals because it was harder to understand.

    That allowed movie companies to release films at the time they wanted, while the shooting was done 2 to 3 years prior, and keeping the audience in the dark.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Less fancy

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴 best

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• hesh@quokk.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re backwards

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    VMM

    IIIVXXXLMCM

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1995 1912

      I assume since this is easy enough to read that some Romans wrote like this to communicate numbers on occasion but it was never official or never historically official.

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• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember a debate if we should write MIM instead of MCMXCIX

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