Roman numerals _together with some form of abacus_ were far superior to Arabic
numerals for commercial calculations until the appearance of decimal adding machines.
The user had to memorize the manipulations for the addition table, including carries,
which is no harder than modern paper and pen
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>> This includes 'Subscript Alef' and 'Turned Damma' (Ulta Pesh), used in
>> Iran and Pakistan;
MMA> I think these are also used in Arab countries, because even my Arabic teacher
MMA> who's from Syria referred to this "ulta pesh" as a "Koranic sign".
On 28-Sep-01 Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> This includes 'Subscript Alef' and 'Turned Damma' (Ulta Pesh), used in
> Iran and Pakistan;
I think these are also used in Arab countries, because even my Arabic teacher
who's from Syria referred to this "ulta pesh" as a "Koranic sign".
> alternate double
A 09:31 2001-09-28 -0700, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan a écrit :
>I tend to look up on the following site, where such info can always be found
>tucked away:
>
>http://www.uselessknowledge.com/word/dollar.shtml
[Alain] Curiously enough, to add to even more useless and even misleading
knowledge, I wi
Michka,
I have also heard that the dollar sign come from a U superimposed over an S
and the bottom of the U was dropped. This would be hard to do on a
typewriter because the two lines would be so close that they would be
indistinct and would fill with lint from the ribbon. I suspect that the
do
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