Re: Is Ab? ?Abd All?h Mu?ammad ibn M?s? al-Khw?rizm? Dead?

Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Marshall wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> Of course, these days we have very different calculating
>> requirements than we did in al-Khw?rizm?'s time. A
>> polynomial is very, very different now from what it was
>> more than M years ago. If nothing else, the rise of
>> XML and the Web and their tremendous success should
>> make us go back to first principles and consider whether it
>> might be time to revive what was once, for centuries, the
>> dominant numeric form. In particular, the fact that XML uses
>> *text* tags, represents everything as character strings,
>> and discards the straightjacket of rigid, well-defined schema
>> should make us consider the value of a number system
>> that represents quantities as strings of letters without
>> any fixed base.
>
>I prefer normalized RN, and I suggest the proper spelling is: MLX. Or is
>that too much of a rigid straightjacket?

    In RN, XL and LX mean two different things. Bob, you really have to drop this normalisation fetish. NRN is the way to go.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.