Re: VMs: French Website

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Ted Young wrote:

> > I also wonder if the VMS is dated before 771 AD when Dwbnt introduced the
> > concept of the zero to mathematics. Before that, numbers were written using
> > letters, such as CCXXIII. This would account for "words" in the VMS that use
> > multiple letters.
>
> I have seen roman numeral style numbers mentioned a bunch of times, but has
> anyone considered ancient Hebrew style numbers?  Each letter of the alphabet
> represented a number... best to show by example:
>
> a 1
> b 2
> c 3
> d 4
> e 5
> f 6
> g 7
> h 8
> i 9
> j 10
> k 20
> l 30
> m 40
> n 50
> o 60
> p 70
> q 80
> r 90
> s 100
> t 200
> etc
>
> So, 256 would have been written: tnf.  Normally these types of numbers were
> prefixed with a Number Sign.  Maybe <qo>?  They key thing is, this would
> produce different character arrangements then Roman numerals.

It shouldn't be hard to see if the statistics for words that begin with 
that letter would be somewhat at variance.


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