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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries

Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

some latin languages as well!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In some roman language like french too !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Gerula 6 points 1 year ago

It's called history.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I couldn't give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals

[–] feedum_sneedson 4 points 1 year ago

It's in the username!

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 3 points 1 year ago

Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!