Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 16:34 |
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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.
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