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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries

Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In some roman language like french too !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Spanish too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

some latin languages as well!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I couldn't give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's called history.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's in the username!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!