On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV

Re:On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV by mariotacke on Friday March 15, 2024 @10:44PM (#39722888)

Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")

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Re:On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV by zeven7 on Friday March 15, 2024 @10:48PM (#39722909)

I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.

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Re:On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV by dhosek on Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:34PM (#39730089)

Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”

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