From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: output of enumeration types
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:26:25 +0100
Date: 2005-04-19T12:26:25+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.48.1113910014.24457.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d42d6g$2tcj$1@news2.ipartners.pl>
>> ... 'I'
>> is not a digit. It can represent or not a decimal position depending
>> on the
>> context. For example in 'XIII', the "digits" are 'X' and 'III'.
This is rubbish. There are no "decimal positions" in Roman numbers. If
there were, XIII = 103, not 13, IV = 15, not 4.
"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.
And, Dmitry, larger numbers than 3999 could be written: a slash over
the character multiplies by 1000. A job for Unicode I guess...
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2005-04-19 21:39 ` Florian Weimer
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