Now OT: Re: Roman numerals

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Thu Apr 22 06:57:45 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.

Not if you want to use Numerals bigger than M.

Gruss
H.

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