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Because in Roman times their mightiest of gods was Jupiter whose Latin name began with IV and so they considered it to be an insult to reduce his name to a number and so the Romans used IIII for 4 instead of IV.

So even today this superstition still remains with us because sometimes IIII is for 4 instead of IV.

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Q: Why is 4 sometimes written as IIII in roman numerals?
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