What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future of Automation

Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:41PM (#15179359)

FYI, many countries/languages write centuries this way (e.g la langue de Voltaire)

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by freehunter on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:55PM (#15180063)

English-speaking countries? Because as a native English speaker, I have no problem reading their words but I have no idea what kind of numbers they're trying to express.

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by cicero on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:36PM (#15180242)

Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by freehunter on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:47AM (#15183600)

Yeah I know they're roman numerals but I can't read roman numerals without significant effort. It's bad form to include large roman numerals in English text. The majority of English speakers aren't going to know roman numerals beyond 10.

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