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Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 16:34
En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:

> So, when in doubt, I turn to the old standby: what did the > ancient Greeks do > for fractions and/or decimals? As far as I understand it, they didn't > have > zero, but they had to have something to handle geometry.
AFAIK they had only fractions of integer values, no decimal numbers or anything alike. They even used 22/7 for Pi! Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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