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To: MrB
There you go again with that 50-ought-50....

I don’t get it!

The Romans didn't have "zero" or "ought."

The lack of which makes multiplying Roman numerals a task for a computer.

32 posted on 06/04/2014 12:22:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

Tell me about it. When I started coding, all we had were ones and zeroes. And sometimes we didn’t even have ones...


42 posted on 06/04/2014 12:51:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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