From: julian@tele.com   
      
   	Dontcha just love how google worked so hard to fuck up   
   usenet so people could answer 24 year old posts.   
      
   	Google making the net even Orwell couldn't envision   
      
   On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:26:04 -0800 (PST), Nan Elizabeth Jorgensen   
    wrote:   
   > What the heck!?? Taking a class at Berkeley on Spain and Portugal up to the   
   17th C. Where the  h do these   
   > "Surely II.V" and such come from?  Even from the explanation of the   
   differences between Spain and Portugal's numbers, I mean––where?   
   >   
   > It was SPAIN'S Philip III   for god/goddess's sake, folks. He died in 1621,   
   an untimely 43 years old, which considering his long reigning  father and   
   grandfather Charles ( Carlos) V was a bit of a shock.   
   > You're damn lucky you didn't have to keep track of the Alfonsos (   
   Afonsos)!!!!   
   >  Peace out ~~~~NJ   
   >   
   >   
   > On Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Simon Slavin wrote:   
   >> In article <32847a24....@news.iol.ie>,   
   >> spal...@iol.ie# (Nick Spalding) wrote:   
   >> > san...@think.com.nospam (Daan Sandee) wrote:   
   >> > >   
   >> > > So the guy who got roasted was actually Philip II.5.   
   >> >   
   >> > Surely II.V?   
   >> There's nothing special about base ten. YM "II/". HTH.   
   >> The '/' means 'half', should be smaller and represents a   
   >> broken stick. Broken sticks link to fascists one way and   
   >> Nazis another way: useful information in case anyone ever   
   >> wants to terminate a thread -- not my intention in this   
   >> case.   
   >> Simon.   
   >> --   
   >> ... or, here's a thought, why don't we talk about SF for a while?   
   >> -- Simon van Dongen  on rec.arts.sf.written   
   >> Simon Slavin -- Computer Contractor Ordinaire. Junk email not welcome here.   
   >> Will administer ISO 9000 and year 2000 certification tests for food.   
      
      
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   - George Orwell   
      
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