But do you see this asinine bullshit? This was the way we white people counted. For years (or at least for years when we COULD count... therefore minus that whole "Dark Ages" time period). It makes no fucking sense. I mean, there's a reason why no one ever knows what fucking number Super Bowl it is when you see all those X's and L's and fucking V's flash across the screen. It is stupid.
So what did we do? We went on a little jaunt called the Crusades and picked up a new numerical system that wasn't so ass-backwards stupid. Yes. That's right. Your precious little numbers are ARABIC and INDIAN and OH NO YOUR DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IS LOOKING PRETTY DAMN ISLAMO-FACIST TO YOU NOW, ISN'T IT?
So suck on that, white people. And don't try to go back to using the Roman numerals or else you're going to have to start referencing an abacus and no one wants to see that.