"D. J." wrote in message
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This is trivial stuff, but I've been making a few Shaker wall clocks and
downloaded a clockface with Roman numerals. Where I went to school, the
number (4) was IV. However on the clockface I have it is IIII. Thinking
it must just be wrong on this particular face, I checked a couple of
photos of clocks at the Hancock Shaker Village and they are also IIII for
(4). Did I learn this wrong or something - I doubt the Romans changed it
in the past 200 years.


Hey you can ever use a "four" that has a triangle at the tip or one that
strictly has all right angles. Which way is correct? ;~)