I've never been thought Romanic #s here in german school ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis JOURDAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 7:18 AM Subject: [USMA:18627] Re: Fwd: Even astrologers are at it now!!
At 12:55 -0800 02/03/8, 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. Yes, mostly beacause they are still used when speaking about centuries : " XIXe si�cle" = 19th century. Louis
