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 Post subject: Roman numerals
PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:57 pm 
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Please feel free to delete this if it's not appropriate or not testy enough :-)<p>Co-worker brought in an interesting problem. In a glossary, two entries appear in the following order:
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Title XIX....<p>Title V....
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Now, V comes before XIX, 5 comes before 19, and five comes before nineteen. No matter how you slice it, these are out of alphabetical order. Can anyone come up with a logical explanation why they are ordered this way?<p>Jen<p>[ June 04, 2004: Message edited by: Jen ]<p>[ June 04, 2004: Message edited by: Jen ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Roman numerals
PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:54 pm 
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Actually, it is the numeric order that is confusing. If they ran them alphabetically, they would get it right.


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