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Subject: Re: [OM] pleased with the OM 55mm f1.2, scouting family day images
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 06:45:44 +0100
How about nothing, nil ("nihil"): a space where the digit would go.  That would 
accord with the principle of shortest is best :-)

Chris

On 18 May 2010, at 00:31, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> 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'.

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