At 07:21 AM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>At 01:10 AM 10/19/00, you wrote:
>>We all know that the romans were great engineers. We also know that the
>>number 12 (arabic) is written XII (roman) and the number 13 (arabic) is
>>written XIII (roman). My question-and if you've ever designed or built
>>anything you'll understand my query....
>>
>>How in the hell do you write 12 and a half in roman numerals?
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>XXV/II
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>Marty
>
Sorry Marty,
I think that's incorrect. They used words for fractions; so, 6/12 which is
1/2 would be "semis" They used parts of 12 a lot and mulitple parts of
12. I also read that is where we derived at the dozen.
Jay
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