> >> > And no doubt some poor slave just finished chisling in all the closing
> >> > stock prices for the Roman Stock Exchange and some spelling weenie piped up
> >> > and said only, "You misspelled 18 on line 30 there."
> >> and said only, "You misspelled XVIII on line XXX there."
> >Now we know where his family went after there was no longer
> >a roman stock exchange :)
> OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage still, there would
> be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!
In fact, even when using the indic-arabic system, if rome would
still rule (name the legal follower :) the date would be way more
aprobiate, since it would be the year 2751 - so we still would
have 49 more years ... the unix problem will hit earlier.
Gruss
H.
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Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 18:16:58 BST