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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Date: 2005-04-19T12:26:25+01:00

>> ... '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...