-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 4:04 pm, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > 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?
Consider this: Coverting '10' to 'X' is easy. How would one convert '0' ? Oh, well, the Hindus had a better idea. - -- Robert Black Eagle The more I understand, the less I know. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE94odOtjSYKkYJrmcRAnnqAJikMIGDcb7WWdvvIs6HoiNAtekBAKCPJz3u rl6o0wHvUvuw+5vSZiOgZA== =m+eX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
