On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:55:57   
 M R wrote:
>If "miles" were "most ancient and precious
>possession",
>then the old Roman numerals like
>I - 1
>V - 5
>X - 10 
>are also precious, do they want to go back to those
>numerals.  By the way, do the schools in Europe teach
>these numerals still.
>
>Madan...

I know you asked about Europe, but I'd like to share how it is in SA.  At least as far 
as Brazil is concerned we still pretty much teach Roman numerals.  Wasn't it too long 
ago that movie production reckoning was still being done using them?  However, it 
seems that this industry did away with that practice (Tata!  It was about time...).

Marcus


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