OnePCWhiz Posted November 6, 2022 Posted November 6, 2022 https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wmZP20_MDCCCCXXII_1922_197_Clarendon_Stephen_L_Brown_Building_Boston_MA?fbclid=IwAR2ViyvGYiD03dIkf9LmwMYGOhxubvZXkzMCCqzOMnFewbeS1lF4b-NO9Gc I just started a job here so I see this every day. What's interesting is this is an invalid Roman Numeral. It should be MCMXXII . Just sayin. :-) 1 Quote
+jonathanatpsu Posted November 13, 2022 Posted November 13, 2022 That is interesting. I guess MDCCCCXXII still works out to the same year, but takes up a bit more space. Perhaps they didn't want any blank space on that part of the building! This reminds me of a clock I have with Roman Numerals on its face that has IIII instead of IV for 4. Quote
+HHL Posted November 13, 2022 Posted November 13, 2022 See this: https://www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de/en/museum/knowledge/clock-facts/clock-dials-with-4-iiii-or-iv.html Hans 1 Quote
+ScroogieII Posted November 13, 2022 Posted November 13, 2022 11 hours ago, HHL said: See this: https://www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de/en/museum/knowledge/clock-facts/clock-dials-with-4-iiii-or-iv.html Hans I'm guessing you're about the same age as myself, possibly older, if that's possible. It was "Spy vs Spy" that gave you away! Keith Quote
+FamilieFrohne Posted November 13, 2022 Posted November 13, 2022 1 hour ago, ScroogieII said: I'm guessing you're about the same age as myself, possibly older, if that's possible. It was "Spy vs Spy" that gave you away! Keith Well ... then I must be old, too. But I really don't feel like I'm old ... BTW: I liked the "Spy vs Spy" strips in the various MAD magazines I've read (in the seventiees, at school time, sometimes even during the lectures ^^ ). But enough of the off-topic stuff ... Quote
+fi67 Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 On 11/13/2022 at 8:44 AM, HHL said: See this: https://www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de/en/museum/knowledge/clock-facts/clock-dials-with-4-iiii-or-iv.html Hans These reasons are correct, but sometimes there was an additional religious reason to use IIII on church clocks. IV was also the abbrievation of Jove, the main god of the religion the early Christians had to overcome. So they hesitated to use his symbol on a church. Quote
+Ariberna Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 5:26 PM, OnePCWhiz said: https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wmZP20_MDCCCCXXII_1922_197_Clarendon_Stephen_L_Brown_Building_Boston_MA?fbclid=IwAR2ViyvGYiD03dIkf9LmwMYGOhxubvZXkzMCCqzOMnFewbeS1lF4b-NO9Gc I just started a job here so I see this every day. What's interesting is this is an invalid Roman Numeral. It should be MCMXXII . Just sayin. :-) Prove to post this WM in Human Error cathegory :-) Quote
+The Snowdog Posted November 16, 2022 Posted November 16, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 10:26 AM, OnePCWhiz said: What's interesting is this is an invalid Roman Numeral. It should be MCMXXII . Just sayin. :-) It's not invalid; identical symbols can be repeated as desired. There's a monument in Rome somewhere with twenty-three consecutive "I" symbols. As long as the result isn't ambiguous, it's just fine. Quote
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