21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
7:47 p.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.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
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