22 Apr
1999
22 Apr
'99
6:57 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.COM
wrote:
>OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage still, there would
>be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!
Also, one only needs three bits to represent a roman
numeral, so we could
save a bit of RAM for every digit for some encodings.
Not if you want to use Numerals bigger than M.
Gruss
H.
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