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@pathduck , happy those which don't need numbers
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@catweazle That's very interesting!
But... why do you link to the Nigerian The Guardian, which is not the same as the UK paper?
Do you often read Nigerian news?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/aug/20/highereducation.research
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/10/daniel-everett-amazon -
@pathduck , no, I know this tribe, and this was the first article in english I found, no other reasons.
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@catweazle said in Heart Of Gold :
I think that the Romans themselves also preferred to use the shortest way of writing numbers in their day to day, I don't think this is an invention of current developers.
IIRC (read somewhere sometime long ago), they didnβt use this subtraction system at all.
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@potmeklecbohdan , I don't know, but I think that with all the works of engineering, architecture and science in ancient Rome, they surely used much more complex numerical connotations than simple symbols for the units.
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@catweazle Of course, like everyone else they measured stuff in feet, fingers, thumbs, cubits and so on, and had their own symbols for these, separate from the numeral system (which obviously couldn't do fractions).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement
https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/ancient-symbols/@potmeklecbohdan
IIRC (read somewhere sometime long ago), they didnβt use this subtraction system at all.
The Wikipedia article says there were exceptions:
"There is however some historic use of subtractive notation other than that described in the above "standard": in particular IIIXX for 17,[25] IIXX for 18,[26] IIIC for 97,[27] IIC for 98,[28][29] and IC for 99.[30] A possible explanation is that the word for 18 in Latin is duodeviginti, literally "two from twenty", 98 is duodecentum (two from hundred), and 99 is undecentum (one from hundred).[31] However, the explanation does not seem to apply to IIIXX and IIIC, since the Latin words for 17 and 97 were septendecim (seven ten) and nonaginta septem (ninety seven), respectively."Maybe the people using numerals like that were considered dunces or yokels by their contemporaries.
"Oh no, that Stupidus Maximus has gone and written
IIX
instead ofVIII
on the stone tablets again!"
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@ornorm said in Closing on stable β Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 2311.3:
The atmosphere here seems disastrously calm to me...
It really sounds like no one cares about Mobile Snapshotβ¦
@ornorm said in Vivaldi is mentioned on YouTube, but not correctly...:
@hlehyaric Are you creating a new HoG out of nowhere?
(look at the title of the thread you're in)I mistakenly posted in a wrong thread & I didn't realise it.
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@guigirl You might have missed it but a second HoG was nearly created...
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@hlehyaric It was delicious!!!!!!!
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@ornorm It was a mere & genuine mistake. I went OT inadvertently.
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@hlehyaric said in Heart Of Gold :
It really sounds like no one cares about Mobile Snapshotβ¦
This is why I took a bit of time to make an answer because the person was just alone in the dark with not even an upvote from the VivTeam ...
This was also the reason why I wrote this yesterday...Something seems to be missing now.
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@guigirl said in Heart Of Gold :
if that story works for you
I don't think so. Actually, I flagged my own post.
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@hlehyaric A bit of hope... "le retour"
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@ornorm Yes, I saw that thread. I've taken a glimpse at the websiteβ¦&, well, there's no real information about what that thing will be. Nothing to be interested of &, tbh, nothing to be excited of.
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@guigirl It was a naughty strategy... (I have to hide it because it's really nauuuuuughtyyyyyyy
- Promoting a refreshing original idea that didn't make noise... at all
- Poking the Boss
- Waiting
- Boss level... Round 1
- Fainting not to be there
- Getting premium inside information
- Promoting a refreshing original idea that didn't make noise... at all
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@ornorm Β«Vivaldi smartphone OSΒ», another great suggestionβ¦