Now OT: Re: Roman numerals

From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
Date: Wed Apr 21 19:47:56 1999

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.COM wrote:
>OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage still, there would
>be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!

Also, one only needs three bits to represent a roman numeral, so we could
save a bit of RAM for every digit for some encodings.

--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
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Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 19:47:56 BST

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