Wednesday, February 07, 2001, 5:14:29 PM, you wrote:


> Hallo Jan,

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:03:16 -0500 GMT (08/02/2001, 01:03 +0800 GMT),
> Jan Rifkinson wrote:

Alexander>>> Not as a letter but as a number: 1. That's probably the reason.

JR>>   What does this mean? The letter "i" has a dot over it. The number
JR>>   "1" doesn't. Nor does capital "I" look like "1". So I don't get what
JR>>   you are trying to say here.

> i) He is saying that you can also use the small letter "i" for
> numbering.

> ii) I think that a spell checker will not find single letters.

> iii) Correct me if I'm wrong.

> iv) I put this fourth number in just to make a point. ;-)

> v) Roman numerals were capital letters, but who cares nowadays.

Sorry, got it now! My Latin lessons were never taken very seriously <G>

Thanks.




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