I was just reading a thread about numbers and numbering systems, and it got me thinking about something that’s actually quite weird.
The Western world basically uses Arabic numbering for everything and has done since time immemorial. That makes sense - a lot of early mathematics came from the Arabic world.
However, the copyright dates in Western film and television credits always use Roman numerals.
Why?????
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