From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Creating account on wiki contextgarden
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8799335D-43FD-4119-8C14-8FEF74844833@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE56C052-012F-438F-9046-2BE8EB42EC21@dandy.net>
Am 2008-07-29 um 22:49 schrieb Steve Peter:
>>> well, you're an original 'roman' guy so you'll get the easy creation
>>> question
>>
>> So, someone with a Peruan IP will get a riddle with Maya numbers?
>
> The Maya were further north, in what is today Mexico, Guatemala,
> Honduras and Belize. Peru was home to the Inca, so Peruvians should
> get quipu.
Oh sorry, should have refreshed my geography knowledge before posting.
But quipu is decimal, that's no encryption ;-)
(Recently read an article on ancient numbering systems that pointed
out that big empires worked only with good arithmetics, i.e. quipu or
Indian/Arabic numbers succeeded, the Roman empire grew too big for
their complicated numbers... Does someone know which system the
Carthagians used?)
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 20:28 Mehdi Omidali
2008-07-28 20:38 ` Mehdi Omidali
2008-07-28 20:38 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-28 20:49 ` Mehdi Omidali
2008-07-28 21:02 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-28 21:39 ` Mehdi Omidali
2008-07-28 21:56 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-29 2:14 ` luigi scarso
2008-07-28 20:46 ` Peter Münster
2008-07-29 2:29 ` luigi scarso
2008-07-29 17:55 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-29 20:30 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-07-29 20:49 ` Steve Peter
2008-07-30 0:05 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2008-07-30 3:44 ` luigi scarso
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