Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-24 days agoAre the Roman numerals based on what your hand looks like when you count?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareAre the Roman numerals based on what your hand looks like when you count?Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-24 days agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·edit-24 days agoPossibly an archaic way? They also counted Base 12. XII is 12, fingers crossed plus the other 2 up?
minus-squarecattywampas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 days agoThe Romans didn’t use base 12. Roman numerals aren’t a positional system.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoWhat about V for 5? There’s only 2 people I ever saw make a V with their hand. Spock, and Vader. No, not Darth Vader. I mean the OTHER Vader. THIS GUY
minus-squareApepollo11@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 days agoBack to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” definitely threw one of these 🖖
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·4 days agoIt’s archaic, we just don’t count like this anymore. Probably not since adoption of Arabic Numbers
Possibly an archaic way? They also counted Base 12. XII is 12, fingers crossed plus the other 2 up?
The Romans didn’t use base 12. Roman numerals aren’t a positional system.
What about V for 5? There’s only 2 people I ever saw make a V with their hand. Spock, and Vader.
No, not Darth Vader. I mean the OTHER Vader.
THIS GUY
Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” definitely threw one of these 🖖
It’s archaic, we just don’t count like this anymore. Probably not since adoption of Arabic Numbers