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| 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 |
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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 |
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