Re: System of digits in Mathcad
In the next release IIII will be corrected to IV. A Roman soldier goes into a bar and holds up two fingers and says "Five beers, please."
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Re: System of digits in Mathcad
David Schenken wrote: In the next release IIII will be corrected to IV ... and N as 0.- it will be a retro Mathcad. PSI have written in school not 04.04.1964 (as now) but 4/IV-1964 And one more from my...
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A Roman soldier goes into a bar and holds up two fingers and says "Veni, vidi, vici, please".Do you know what hr wanted?
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IMHO IIV and IIIX are not valid Roman numbers, while IV but also IIII both are.If we want to be very subtle then there is no such thing as a Roman number. They used the same natural numbers as we do....
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Werner Exinger wrote: IMHO IIV and IIIX are not valid Roman numbers, while IV but also IIII both are. I have especially input wrong Roman number to show possible error in Excel.Correct function is...
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" the subtraction shortcut hardly ever was used by the Romans themselves but rather was introduced in Europe much later at the time of printing presss." That's probably true. I, myself, was too young...
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Werner Exinger wroteYou also usually still have IIII at clock faces and not IV.Only this object shows us correct Roman numbers [and correct [world] time] not this
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We sure can find examples of clockfaces for both notations.See below some from St. Stephans in Vienna, Rolex and the last ones from Café Ziferblat (ziferblat.net) in Moscow, where you don't pay for the...
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I see Roman numbers... on my dacha.It is one case when the usung (write on wood) Roman numbers is more simply then the using Arabian numbers.
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