Hi, Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:18:39 AM, you wrote:
> Had a look at your gallery David. Did you know Big Ben has a crack? To start > with someone (interfering with the design) increased the weight of the > hammer and that cracked the bell quite soon. A lighter hammer was installed > and the bell turned through 90 degrees. It's been ringing ever since - with > the crack. I was intrigued to see Dave's 'Roman' clock. The Roman way of telling the time was very different from ours. They had 24 hours in each day, but, because they needed to fit 12 into the daytime, and 12 into the night, and they didn't have mechanical clocks, the length of the hours varied according to the season from 45 to 75 minutes. There's a website about it here: http://www.beaglesoft.com/timehistoryroman.htm Incidentally, converting roman numerals into our arabic format is quite an interesting little programming exercise - try a calculator which reads roman numerals, adds, subtracts, mutiplies and divides, and gives the answer in roman numerals. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
