> > >And again, more questions:
> > >If I'm right at Megans description, she just include the next lower
> > >digit when it comes to these subtraction rules, and your Algo seams
> > >to be weak at the same point. Let me give an example:
> > >49 would be normaly coded as IL (always remember, it was kind of a
> > >system to reduce writing as much as possible - there are even examples
> > >where the number 248 is written CIIL) while Megan seams to code it as
> > >XXXXIX - basicly wrong - or did I miss something ? I'm not realy
> > >what one can call a DEC-Geek.
> > I guess I'm unclear as to whether any numeral can be used to reduce
> > the value of a higher, subsequent numeral.
> > Using your explanation, 1999 would be MIM, instead of the more
> > standard (as I have seen it) MCMXCIX.
>[...compression ideas of Roman Numerals...]
While out for lunch, I've seen a light ... erh ... I've seen
where Megan took the impression that the Roman system is kind
of a BCD like system (or better RCD :) - each decimal digit is
encoded using Roman Numerals (with an inclusion of the digit
position) - but that was never the system - position dependant
coding (like our arabic/indic system) was alien to the Numeral
system. Maybe some decimal adjusted (DAA) persons where building
the examples she is refering.
Gruss
H.
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Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 09:03:28 BST