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- From: michalj@fuw.edu.pl (Michal Jankowski)
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- Subject: Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
- Message-ID: <MICHALJ.93Jan10115821@fizyk1.fuw.edu.pl>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 10:58:21 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: firth@sei.cmu.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:05:49 EST
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- >>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:05:49 EST, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) said:
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- Robert> One interesting exception is the mediaeval conceit of
- Robert> embedding a roman number in a name or phrase, which of course
- Robert> works because the roman numerals aren't positional.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Huh? Did you forget that IX = 9 and XI = 11?
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- Michal
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