Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:04:30 GMT, "James J. Gavan"
<jgavandeletethis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> What does the Egyptian five look like?
>
>I have no idea :-). It was '54 when I left Egypt so I think I can plead 
>the onset of Alzheimer's. Our only view of 'Egypt' was in our RAF bus 
>taking us swimming in the afternoon, and en route we passed through the 
>outskirts of Ismalia to get to our Lagoon, an offshoot of the Suez 
>Canal. Saw the odd civilian vehicle with Arabic number plates, but the 
>numbers were unintelligible. The best I can remember was that zero was 
>written at a slant as a sort of four-sided character.

I like the story that our number system is based upon how many angles
each digit has.    That requires a closed 4 and a 7 with a bar that
drops, plus only zero has rounded shape.

One would think that the Arabic speaking countries would use Arabic
numerals.