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 ...

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 ...

Shame on Charles F. Snyder and whoever else is responsible for the clock on Penn Square. Not only is the number four wrong, all the numbers are wrong. This is America ...

In a sunlit room in Anchorage on a recent afternoon, high school students from all over the state were painting, gluing and covering wood with resin. Round handmade clocks dotted the table, each ...

Chester’s contribution to Comic Relief appears to be its comedy Eastgate Clock - after all the numbers were put on backwards. Eagle-eyed shoppers spotted the ...