From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42842 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Creating account on wiki contextgarden Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:33 +0200 Message-ID: <8799335D-43FD-4119-8C14-8FEF74844833@fiee.net> References: <6048c4180807281328i7bb58a8aw498be3386e55db96@mail.gmail.com> <488F5993.9070200@wxs.nl> <0A29ECEB-88A8-4703-A5D9-262E4AB2CBAB@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217376438 12757 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2008 00:07:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:07:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 30 02:08:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNzEb-0005XJ-KC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B01E1FE3B; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03400-04-7; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:06:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E33E1FE16; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:06:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60C51FE1B for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:06:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03400-04-6 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lvps87-230-27-118.dedicated.hosteurope.de (fiee.net [87.230.27.118]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0AF1FE13 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:34 +0200 (CEST) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Original-Received: (qmail 18189 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2008 02:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from 141-7.0-85.cust.bluewin.ch (HELO ?10.128.9.9?) (85.0.7.141) by fiee.net with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Jul 2008 02:05:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42842 Archived-At: 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 --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________