"Richard Morton" <rmm### [at] anywhereyoulike> wrote in message
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> On all the clocks that I have seen with Roman numerals (not sure about
> watches), 4 has been represented by IIII rather than IV. I've never
> understood why this was done so if someone could elucidate I would be
> grateful.
>

IV grows and ends up obscuring the clock-face. IIII is better, although it
does tend to get picked on and teased by the numerals with good vision.

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