The reason our number system looks the way it does is not coincidence at all. 1 has 1 angle, 2 has 2 angles, 3 has 3 angles etc. To properly demonstrate I would need to draw them for you because over the years the numbers look a little different but not too much. The number 8 used to look like two boxes stacked on top of each other creating exactly 8 angles.
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Because that was the way the Romans wrote their numbers centuries ago. Certain numbers are still written that way even today. MMX for example is 2010
The Roman numerals of MMXII are equivalent to 2011 in today's numbers
In today's notation of Roman numerals: VII-XIII-MCMXCIV But the Romans would have probably wrote out 1994 differently in the way that we do today.
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