News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
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.
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”