His conjecture was as follows.
Roman numeral 4 on clock face.
Roman numeral clocks hour 4.
Regarding the use of roman numeral iiii vs.
I ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii and so on.
This one was scanned from a circa 1902 printers book.
Iiii was the earliest way to write 4.
Without a definitive reason we offer v theories for the discrepancy.
Commonly roman numerals are written this way.
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Roman numeral clocks hour 4.
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Imagine a watch face with roman numerals and look at the numerals opposite to each other all of them are in perfect balance except for the heavy viii and the light iv.
Optical balance is re established by printing an also heavy iiii.
You find you have four x s four v s and 20 i s or four identical sets of xviiiii.
Roman numerals clocks one theory is the french king louis xiv 1638 1715 is said to have preferred iiii over iv on clock faces.
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The notations iv and ix can be read as one less than five 4 and one less than ten 9 although there is a tradition favouring representation of 4 as iiii on roman numeral clocks.
Iv on clocks i noticed iiii on clocks a long time ago and when i happened to meet a clockmaker i asked.
Everything about this one is so fancy including the hands the roman numerals and the base.
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2 other common uses include year numbers on monuments and buildings and copyright dates on the title screens of movies and television programs.
Count the number of x s v s and i s on a clock face that has iiii.
Although you probably learned iv as the roman numeral 4 in elementary school jerry clock faces often show iiii instead.
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The clipart gallery of plain clocks hour 4 offers 60 images of clocks showing the time from 4 00 to 4 59 in one minute intervals.
One tradition says the iiii form was used to avoid invoking the wrath of the roman god jupiter whose latin name ivppiter begins with iv.
As a result of this he ordered all the clock makers in france to use only iiii on clocks.