[NBLUG/talk] Invention of the Unary Number System

Andru Luvisi luvisi at andru.sonoma.edu
Mon May 19 17:50:03 PDT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
[snip]
> (Seriously, the Romans found 0 so scary that they outlawed it)

Yeah, but then the Roman Empire fell because they had no way to indicate
successful termination of their C programs.

Andru
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