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For gravestone and other stone carvings, i feel it's not purely for the sake of formality, by design roman numerals are easy to carve in stone with a chisel and
by kpw94 3y ago
For gravestone and other stone carvings, i feel it's not purely for the sake of formality, by design roman numerals are easy to carve in stone with a chisel and a hammer... At least before reaching the number 90, which is when the C letter appears.
On old buildings the letter U was probably carved as a V for that same reason.
- asveikau 3y agoThe letter U was carved as V because the original Latin alphabet did not have U. V could be a consonant or a vowel, and later on U came about to denote the latter. Wikipedia says the first use of U was in 1386. The same thing is true of I and J. J is the consonant version, and iirc came about around the fourth century AD.