Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 17:16 |
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 4:34 pm, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> 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.
Actually, I would have thought they would use 3+1/7.