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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
October 9, 2001 09:24
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
20011009172446.A52887@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:41:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 09:33 AM 10/9/2001 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> >I can hear the crys now though "Oh no! First ``x'', then ``v'', now
> >``_'' and ``i''. Sheesh! When will it end?!?"  ;-)

There are lots of symbols in unicode. They should keep us going for a while

> r. When we allow Roman Numerals for constants we're doomed. :)

I had a think about this a few days ago. I can't see how to do fractions
in Roman Numerals.
integers and exponents in E notation should all be easy, shouldn't they?

Nicholas Clark


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