Dear Joe,
Thank you for the reference to Simon Stevin. He has been totally
unrecognised for introducing decimal numbers into modern thought.
Personally, I doubt that Napier of Newton could have done their great work
without Stevin's earlier groundbreaking insights. His work was truly a
watershed in modern thought.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
on 2001-03-13 09.47, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alfred Hu wrote in USMA 11559:
>
>> well if you can call this progress in the right direction, smile!
>>
>> http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010312/14/decimalization-nasdaq
>>
>>
>> alfred
>
>
> It is interesting that NASDAQ is making the change reluctantly under an
> order from the US government, and after havung been granted a delay when it
> claimed it could not make the change before the first deadline. It is 415
> years since Simon Stevin proposed the use of decimal fractions instead of
> the usual binary vulgar fractions.
>
> Joseph B. Reid
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