Roman numerals are, by modern standards, a bit unusual. By virtue of using designations for both 5 and 10, and not scaling well to higher numbers, they’ve fallen out of favor outside of some … ...

So to change the time on an analogue clock to a 24 hour digital clock, you just need to add on 12 more hours. BRAIN: Brain. NARRATOR: Good lad Brain, rock on! ... Roman numerals.

Why do some analog clocks with Roman numerals have '4' as 'IV,' while others have 'IIII'? This is one of those questions where no one seems to have a definitive answer, and probably no one ever will.

Do you want to win a bet? Ask someone to draw the face of an old grandfather clock with the Roman numerals placed correctly. Most of the numbers are easy — either IIII or IV is correct as the ...

From: Sonia White, Leeds. HOW embarrassing, I would have been ashamed if my child couldn’t tell the time with an analogue time piece (The Yorkshire Post, May 1). Whatever happened to time ...

Shame on Charles F. Snyder and whoever else is responsible for the clock on Penn Square. Not only is the number four wrong, all the numbers are wrong. This is America, and the numbers should be: 1 ...