From: dickey@saltmine.radix.net   
      
   Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:   
   > Roman numerals (in their standard form without IIII and other stuff) don't   
      
   fwiw, I've read that IIII was the standard form which the Romans used,   
   and that IV was a later innovation.   
      
   googling "roman iiii iv" gives this for instance:   
      
   	http://elginwatches.org/help/roman_IIII.html   
   	http://www.bhi.co.uk/hints/roman.htm   
      
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