> Obviously the character(s) responsible for dates etc were NOT C programmers!
No, they still using Roman Numerals instead of Indian Numbers and were oblivious of the number 0. As indeed Abu Dschaʿfar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Chwārizmī published his book "De numero Indorum" (the earliest latin translation of the arabic original, which is lost) somewhere around the year 825, that introduced their algebra (taken from the original title "al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-ʾl-muqābala") into the arabic world; later translations referred to the digits 0-9 as arabic numbers. ___________________________________________ Gunter Hick | Software Engineer | Scientific Games International GmbH | Klitschgasse 2-4, A-1130 Vienna | FN 157284 a, HG Wien, DVR: 0430013 | (O) +43 1 80100 - 0 May be privileged. May be confidential. Please delete if not the addressee. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
