I thought it was clear. I know the Romans didn't have a zero but
neither did they have any decimal points. Since several stepped up to
the plate to fudge a decimal value so I figured I'd ask for the same
inventiveness applied to 0. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Er...did the Romans have a zero? I don't think they had the concept.
> I used to laugh at the tortured roman numeral sequences used as we
> approached the the end of the last millenium, to represent the year. I
> was assured that these 'followed the rules' - I used to point out that
> the numerals were designed to be incised in stone and the rule would
> have been - 'shortest form is best'.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 18/05/2010, at 7:24 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Where were you guys when the Romans needed you? And where's the zero?
>
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