From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: output of enumeration types
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:55:10 +0200
Date: 2005-04-19T19:55:06+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426545f6$0$10512$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kGrvVLlzhxNB@eisner.encompasserve.org>
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <mailman.48.1113910014.24457.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:
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>>"Digit" does not necessarily convey position. It is a notion, not some
>>engineering standard. It is OK to call 'X', 'I', "Roman digits."
>>However the canonical name is "characters," I think.
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> But "E" is a roman "character".
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html
says "numerals" or "letters". How does Knuth name them?
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2005-04-18 22:04 output of enumeration types Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 22:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-18 22:43 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 23:35 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 0:07 ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19 0:43 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 4:56 ` Martin Krischik
2005-04-19 18:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-20 0:40 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20 1:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-19 0:33 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 0:51 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 23:40 ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-20 0:17 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20 9:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-20 23:16 ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19 0:59 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 1:54 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-19 3:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 10:34 ` output and digits Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20 13:56 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-20 19:53 ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 3:04 ` output of enumeration types Steve
2005-04-19 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 7:49 ` Szymon Guz
2005-04-19 8:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 11:26 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 12:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 13:57 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 16:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 17:55 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2005-04-19 21:39 ` Florian Weimer
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