Speaking of Roman numerals, I have just received for review a volume
published by Teubner, using the date MIM - ouch. I thought there were
conventions against this sort of thing, and a learned press such as Teubner
ought to know better.
Ian T.
At 11:36 19/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 03:36 PM 11/19/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>But then there has been no even numbered day since 8/8/888
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>But if you write it as it would have been written in Western Europe at the
>time, a.d. vi Id. Aug. DCCCLXXXVIII, it loses a lot of the mystique.
>
>Steve Fanning
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