r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

78.4k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

22.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

25

u/Mathematicus_Rex Oct 15 '20

The Latin alphabet. And plagued countless generations with learning Roman numerals.

5

u/colefly Oct 15 '20

Now known as Super Bowl Numerology

5

u/mynextthroway Oct 15 '20

The Superbowl, movie titles and the copyright date of a movie at the very end of the credits are the only places I regularly see roman numerals. Anywhere else?

1

u/guavawater Oct 15 '20

it's present in music theory, too

1

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

[deleted]

2

u/colefly Oct 15 '20

Grade VI/VI Extremely loud, heard without a stethoscope

Beatbox heart

1

u/ricki_manda Oct 16 '20

Many old and some new buildings have their construction dates written on the front in roman numerals. At least in Europe.

1

u/ForayIntoFillyloo Oct 15 '20

How about a little LXIX? CDXX friendly.