Re: VMs: Kepler & the VMS

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

At 09:17 24/04/2004 -0400, Robert Teague wrote:
> Except that <ol> as a number pair would be read "15". It's possible that <f>
> is "0", but I've found no examples of it.

A system of Arabic numerals without a zero? Doesn't that strike you as 
somewhat unlikely?

> On f66r, tenth line from the bottom, fifth word.  Note how, while words 
> surrounding
> it have letters written side by side, this word has a half-space between 
> letters. I
> think this is the date of 1558. Other words I think are dates tend to have 
> space
> between the letters, so I think this is a way of distinguishing them.

As well as <ol>s, there are a good number of free-standing <l>s on f66r 
(mainly in the last paragraph, such as in the word <olld> which you 
mention, and <lshedy> following), which might well mean that only Language 
B could contain numbers?

Curious...

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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