On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 timpart@... wrote:

> Does anyone still use the original form of four (iiii)?

<p class="off-topic">Well, there's a colleague of mine who once mistakenly
used it for referring to "Pentium IIII" CPUs (even "IV" would have been
wrong, since Intel uses the Arabic 4 to refer to the CPU). This became a
famous internal joke, and in internal emails we still tend to use things
like "IIIIIIII" for 8.</p>

roozbeh