Roman numeral watches

Alex · 01-04-2012, 07:52 PM

The wikipedia page mentions that when the first clocks started using IIII instead of IV that this was the standard usage of the day.

This page sources contemporary manuscripts (to the first clocks) showing that IIII was used to represent IIII (so fourteen was also XIIII) and IX was used for nine.

So the answer is, as is so often the case:

Because that's how the person before them did it.

01-04-2012, 07:52 PM	#15
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	The wikipedia page mentions that when the first clocks started using IIII instead of IV that this was the standard usage of the day. This page sources contemporary manuscripts (to the first clocks) showing that IIII was used to represent IIII (so fourteen was also XIIII) and IX was used for nine. So the answer is, as is so often the case: Because that's how the person before them did it.
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