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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 14:57:40 +0100
Date: 2005-04-19T14:57:40+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.51.1113919080.24457.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cj60ov2llxs$.96jjfyvlabd3.dlg@40tude.net>

> No, actually Roman system is almost decimal positional...

Ok, "almost."  To me relative positions meaning addition and 
subtraction mingled with decimal positions is a big "almost", but ok.

> Wasn't it a medieval vulgarization?

No. Later Republic. Before that they resorted to Chalcidic symbols for 
5_000, 10_000, 50_000, 100_000, etc.




  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 13:57 UTC|newest]

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
2005-04-19 12:56       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 13:57         ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
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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