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→Spec?: added ''style'' to ''Attic'' and explained (somewhat) the Attic style.
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* expression of large numbers
* support for ''zero'' (or ''nothing'')
* Attic style
* old style
* modern style
Attic style is a Greek style (also known as acrophonic or Herodianic numerals). Attic numerals were in use by the Greeks around the 7th century BCE before they converted to their later Greek numerals, but you can clearly see the influence they had on Roman numerals.
Modern style is where '''IV''' is always used instead of '''IIII''', but almost all clock-face makers (of clocks and wrist watches that use Roman numerals) today use the old style, and also where '''u''' and '''j''' are used in addition of '''v''' and '''i''' (respectively).
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