From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ce828272f314121 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: output of enumeration types Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:57:40 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <1gv02c5pwbx1e$.sugmeiie353z$.dlg@40tude.net> <5cj60ov2llxs$.96jjfyvlabd3.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1113919081 25363 212.85.156.195 (19 Apr 2005 13:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:58:01 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <5cj60ov2llxs$.96jjfyvlabd3.dlg@40tude.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10572 Date: 2005-04-19T14:57:40+01:00 > 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.