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echo: atm
to: ATM
from: burrjaw{at}earthlink.net
date: 2003-06-18 18:39:26
subject: Re: ATM OT how the world displays numbers

To: atm{at}shore.net
From: Jim Burrows 
Reply-To: Jim Burrows 


At 15:56 2003-06-18 -0300, McHatten, Shawn wrote:

>  I'm just wondering how many different ways the world displays numbers
> regardless of the units of measure they represent. Especially the Arabic
> numerals, that much of the western world uses.

I was in Nepal several years ago, and the license plates had weird digits -
I wondered why they didn't go with the rest of the world.  Whoops, them
Hindus were first - I think they invented the base-ten numbering system.

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