On 9/23/13, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Are you sure regarding M considering there is no symbol for 5000? Or > didn't Romans count to more than 5000 - 1? >
There are numerous extensions upon the scheme. In later times adding horizontal lines above or under a Roman numeral meant multiply by 1000. I don't believe though Romans knew negative numbers. But I'm certainly not an expert on the matter. Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
