Re: Mayan numerals

On 01/23/2003 10:47:08 AM Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

><p class="off-topic">Well, there's a colleague of mine who once mistakenly
>used it for referring to "Pentium IIII" CPUs (even "IV" would have been
>wrong, since Intel uses the Arabic 4 to refer to the CPU). This became a
>famous internal joke, and in internal emails we still tend to use things
>like "IIIIIIII" for 8.</p>

I can just imagine this happening when talking about i18n:

iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIn

which might in turn be abbreviated as iI16In, leading to
iIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIn, which could be abbreviated as iIi14iIn...




- Peter


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