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zeven7
on March 16, 2024
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On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.
dhosek
on March 16, 2024
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Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”
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