Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-24 days agoAre the Roman numerals based on what your hand looks like when you count?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareAre the Roman numerals based on what your hand looks like when you count?Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-24 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 days agoI’m not really following you. How is iv or vi represented in your theory?
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·4 days agoBy turning your hand around.
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-23 days ago…what? I am staring at my hand and turning it back and forth and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about
minus-squarePearOfDees@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoOh fuck… I get what you mean, i mean who knows they could’ve done this, although i can’t say for certain due to not being there nor being a historian lol, it cause also just be a coincidence or a shower thought. 🤔
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·3 days agoIV (middle, index, thumb) VI (thumb, index, middle)
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoNobody in the history of the world has ever held those three fingers up to mean four or six
I’m not really following you. How is iv or vi represented in your theory?
By turning your hand around.
…what? I am staring at my hand and turning it back and forth and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about
Oh fuck… I get what you mean, i mean who knows they could’ve done this, although i can’t say for certain due to not being there nor being a historian lol, it cause also just be a coincidence or a shower thought. 🤔
IV (middle, index, thumb)
VI (thumb, index, middle)
What
Nobody in the history of the world has ever held those three fingers up to mean four or six