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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 20 March 2018 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I had no idea!! Amazing what you learn on this forum. But damn, now I'll get annoyed every time I see IV....
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So when was IV as 4 introduced ?
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It's something I had noticed before, but didn't give it much thought. I just thought it was for aesthetic reasons. 
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IV to my eyes seems more "elegant" than IIII. Perhaps others have agreed ove the centuries.
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A Roman gladiator walks into a bar, goes up to the bartender, holds up two fingers, and says, "Give me five beers."

Another Roman walks into that bar and says, "I'll have a martinus."
Bartender says, "You mean martini?"
Roman says, "Listen, if I want two, I'll ORDER two!"
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^ (insert picture of my feet at 45 degree angle to one side of panel)
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So when was IV as 4 introduced 
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MCMLXXXV, when Rocky fought Drago and brought about the end of the Soviet Union.

The event was so momentous that, in its honour, the history books were respectively altered to suggest a much earlier introduction of standardised subtractive rules around sometime in the Middle Ages.
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