• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    Well, axially, 🤓

    Roman Ⅴ was chosen as the letter best approximating the look of the 🖐️ gesture, while Ⅰ corresponds to ☝️ and Ⅹ to 🫲🫱.

    Edit: turns out this is a hypothesis. Romans probably used other hand counting systems anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      ✌ symbolizes bunny ears, mocking the stupid bird

      Alternatively the roman is just missing Ⅲ fingers from his 🖐️ and it’s abelism

    • @egrets
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      56 months ago

      Got a source for that? My understanding was that the Romans based their numerals on the older Etruscan system, in which the V was upside-down and therefore even less hand-shaped.