[DCRM-L] Lemniscate

[Manon Theroux]

oops- Ellen not Erin!!

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Manon Theroux <manon.theroux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Erin,
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> I don't recall it ever coming up in discussions, so I think it wasn't
> a deliberate omission.
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> I'd vote for adding it to the chart!
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> Manon
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> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Cordes, Ellen <ellen.cordes at yale.edu> wrote:
>> DCRM(B-S) editors and others,
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>> I ran across a couple of prints published in Rome in the 16th century that
>> used the lemniscate in place of the M to represent 1000 in the date.
>> [Printers who used this convention used the number 8 sideways, apparently,
>> though I have never actually seen it.]   It seems like something that (B) or
>> (S) would have included in the chart in G2, but did not.  The question came
>> up in the context of reviewing the chart in G2 for DCRM(G).
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>> There's an interesting brief description of the use of lemniscates at
>> http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html
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>> Was this too obscure to include in G2 in the (B) and (S) modules?
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>> Ellen R. Cordes
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