Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-23 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-23 days agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 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-23 days agoBack to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” definitely threw one of these 🖖
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·3 days agoIt’s archaic, we just don’t count like this anymore. Probably not since adoption of Arabic Numbers
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