21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
4:12 p.m.
And no doubt some poor slave just finished chisling in
all the closing
stock prices for the Roman Stock Exchange and some spelling weenie piped up
and said only, "You misspelled 18 on line 30 there."
and said only,
"You misspelled XVIII on line XXX there." 
21 Apr
21 Apr
4:28 p.m.
At 05:12 PM 4/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage
still, there would
be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!
There are some interesting descriptions of Roman computing-ish
devices, like the one that drew lots for jury and Senate duty,
in the Dead Media mailing list. Search anywhere and ye shall find.
- John
6:16 p.m.
>> > And no doubt some poor slave just
finished chisling in all the closing
>> > stock prices for the Roman Stock Exchange and some spelling weenie piped
up
>> > and said only, "You misspelled 18 on line 30 there."
>> and said only, "You misspelled XVIII on line XXX there."
>Now we know where his family went after there was no longer
>a roman stock exchange :)
OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage
still, there would
be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!
In fact, even when using the indic-arabic system, if rome would
still rule (name the legal follower :) the date would be way more
aprobiate, since it would be the year 2751 - so we still would
have 49 more years ... the unix problem will hit earlier.
Gruss
H.
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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.
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22 Apr
22 Apr
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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