Comment on Are the Roman numerals based on what your hand look like when you count?

Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  By turning your hand around.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    …what? I am starting at my hand and turning it back and forth and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about

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    • PearOfDees69@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh fuck… I get what you mean, i mean who knows they could’ve done this, although i can’t say for certain due to not being there nor being a historian lol, it cause also just be a coincidence or a shower thought. 🤔

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    • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      IV (middle, index, thumb)

      VI (thumb, index, middle)

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What

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      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nobody in the history of the world has ever held those three fingers up to mean four or six

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