30 May
2010
30 May
'10
8:50 p.m.
Andrew Burton wrote:
I was thinking that Roman Numerals was the first time
(I knew of) numbers
being represented by letters, and that would have influenced whoever thought
up the sexadecimal system (I can't find any reference to them on wiki - I'm
sure it used to be there). Perhaps I was wrong.
I think the Greeks used the letters of the alphabet as well for numbers.
But who used numbers over a 100 when you think about it.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk