Re: numbers written in ascii... looking for all common (and some uncommon) forms....

From: wolfgang kern (nowhere_at_nevernet.at)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:16:38 -0000

Hi Frank,

| > Perhaps I add it to my date/time numeric formats,
| > as this figures are often found in older text and on a lot
| > of Euopean stones, meaning year-numbers.
| > And many folks may not know how to correct interpret them.
|
| Here's a binary->roman converter (for dos) loosely based on some code
| Terje posted a while back. I hadda fudge the "0" - I don't think the
| Romans had 'em. Probably more wrong with it, too...

                    /use16
 CLXXX,VIII, B4 08 MOV AH,08
CCV,XXXIII, CD 33 INT 33 ;"mousy action"
VIII,CLXLII,CXVII, X, 08 8E 75 0A OR DS:[0A75],CL
CLXLVIII,VI,CLXXVI,I,XLVIII, C6 06 B0 01 30 MOV DS:[01B0]b,30
CLXXXV,I,0, B9 01 00 MOV CX,0100 ;"loop to expect"
CCXXXV,XI, EB 0B JMP +0B

Ok, it's possible to recover that code,
but a boring story to do it just from my memory.
On a first glimpse, it could be a software cursor control?
The 'roman syntax' looks correct.

| XXXVII, CCLV, 0, CLXLI, CLXXVI, I,
| CCXXXII, XXXI, 0, CXXXVII, CLXLIII, CLXXX, LXIV, CLXXXVII, I, 0,
| CLXXXVI, CLXXVI, I, CCV, XXXIII, CLXXX, LXIV, CLXXXVII, I, 0, CLXXXV,
| II, 0, CLXXXVI, CLXXII, I, CCV, XXXIII, CCXXXV, CCII, CLXXX, LXXVI, CCV,
| XXXIII, LXXXIII, LXXXI, LXXXII, LXXXVI, LXXXVII, CLXL, CCXLII, CCLV,
| CXXXVII, CLXLIV, CCXXXIII, XVIII, 0, CXXXVI, XXIX, CXXVIII, CCLV, I,
| CXXXVI, CXXV, I, CXXIX, CCXXIII, CCLIV, CCLV, XLI, CCII, CXV, CCXL, I,
| CCII, LXXXVI, CCIX, CCXXX, CCIX, CCXXX, CXXXIX, CLVI, CLXXII, I, CXXXIX,
| CXL, CLXXIV, I, LXLIV, LXX, CXVII, CCXXXIII, CXXXVII, CCXLVIII, LXLV,
| XLI, CCXLVIII, LXLIV, LXL, LXXXIX, LXLI, CLXLV, LXXVII, 0, CCXXXII
                        ^^^-NOP detected? ? missing end ..

| We're flexible about syntax, right? :)

In fact we are, but I better keep onto the hex-notation :)

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wolfgang