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Since in roman numerals you can only have the same letter next to itself up to 3 times, you can't put IIII. So you need to subtract from the next highest value which is V aka 5. To get from 5 to for is a difference of 1, therefore 4 in romen numerals would be IV (1 subtracted from 5)

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