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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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> Just from my guess, it looks fancier to someone, however, it solves no
> essencial problem. =E2=98=BA

roman numerals were all very fine for writing down numbers, but were
a nightmare to do mathematics with. this was due to their awful
representation.

brucee did once add roman numbers to csh.  you could:

    set roman

and it would spit roman numerals where it thought it needed
to spit numbers.  iirc, history was one example.