A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.
Woah.</Keanu>
Update: Forgot the ObSimpsons:
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Any negative comment on PM will get downvoted ( through experience ) , so XP is a number since you created a node with "XP" as the letters and it is bringing your points/numbers down.
Regards
Prad
;)
Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
No, it's not! :)
Yeah... I'd rather not have my death-date moved forward or back based on the opinions of others.
-xdg
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People who will die on this date also...
Absolutely right. It's
XI, XV, XX, XL, XC, XD, and XM are numbers but XP isn't.
-sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
XI, XV, XX, XL, XC, XD, and XM are numbers but XP isn't.
IIRC, XD and XM are wrong and should be CDXC and CMXC instead.
Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }
IIRC, XD and XM are wrong and should be CDXC and CMXC instead.
I was wondering how long it would take...
It's debatable and I don't much feel like debating it. It's hard to say what's "right" and "wrong" here because it's not like there was ever an accepted standard of use; just convention. I think there are examples of both in ancient usage but you'll probably be able to make a stronger case denying XD than XM.
And, while I'm revisiting the subject, I'm surprised no one has so far mentioned that I've forgotten XM...
-sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
If you count like MS XP is just a number ...
Win1
Win2
Win3.1
Win95
Win98
WinME
Win2000
WinXP
Win2003
That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure I missed some other MS numbers.
WinCE and Win95 to boot. Or is it dual boot? :) A list.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Scalar::Util;
my $str = 'XP';
print "$str does",
Scalar::Util::looks_like_number($str) ? '' : ' not',
" look like a number.\n";
yields:
$ ./bs.pl XP does not look like a number.Tsk, tsk.
Matt