The Washington Post

Why do clocks have IIII for 4 o’clock rather than the Roman numeral IV?

Thanks for your informative piece on the Roman numerals on the Tomb of the Unknowns. Now can you explain to me why the 4 on my watch is denominated by IIII instead of IV, a fact I had not noticed ...
Chicago Tribune

Clocks on State Street store getting paint job and polish

The two iconic cast bronze clocks that hang on what once was Marshall Field’s on State Street were getting a long overdue makeover Wednesday morning. At the corners of Washington and State and ...
Hackaday

Color Coded Clock Runs On Roman Numerals

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 specific ...
BBC

Roman numerals to 1000

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits. Why ...