Robert Black Eagle wrote:
You have never read Tacitus or even much in Cicero or old man Julius,
have you. Compact seems not to apply to any of these, except when
Julius was being a plitician or Cicero was making a rhetorical point.
I must admit that I didn't go very far beyond "De bello gallico" with my
reading in latin, more than 35 years ago at an age when I wasn't
extremely interested in Caesar's tales about bashing the Gauls.
- Computational algorithms in latin are a bit clumsy and
hard to implement, think of
MCCCXCXXXVIII + LXXXIX = ???
Easily solved. Enter Hindu (excuse me, Arabic) numerals and convert
the output. Now -- Sanskrit might be a bit harder.
That should indeed be easy - but where is the sportsmanship in doing so?
Klaus
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