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Offline Jonny Hotnuts

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Car numbers.....
« on: January 10, 2013, 10:10:18 PM »
I was thinking Roman numerals for something different.

Will someone complain or have issue?

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Offline Dynoroom

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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2013, 10:16:04 PM »
Yes,

 it's in the book Johnny.
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2013, 10:38:15 PM »
JNuts just convince the board you're and old Roman and you don't know any other system of numbers....  :roll: 

or get the owner of 111 and 3 to give you their numbers, them no one will know.  :-D
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2013, 10:50:30 PM »
Quote from: Stainless1 on January 10, 2013, 10:38:15 PM
JNuts just convince the board you're and old Roman and you don't know any other system of numbers....  :roll: 

Well, he IS driving a Fiat . . .
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Offline Nortonist 592

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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2013, 02:44:16 AM »
Quote from: Stainless1 on January 10, 2013, 10:38:15 PM
JNuts just convince the board you're and old Roman and you don't know any other system of numbers.

You might get your timeslip in roman numerals too. 
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Offline JimL

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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2013, 03:46:46 AM »
....and it will come as a long scroll, rolled onto 2 wooden dowels.  To keep things simple, speed will be rounded down to the next lower "C".    :roll:
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2013, 11:37:28 AM »
Quote from: Stainless1 on January 10, 2013, 10:38:15 PM
JNuts just convince the board you're and old Roman and you don't know any other system of numbers....  :roll: 

or get the owner of 111 and 3 to give you their numbers, them no one will know.  :-D

111 is still in use and we won't give it up. :cheers:
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2013, 11:59:24 AM »
Avoid numbers with just 1's and 0's to avoid issues with illegal digital technology.
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2013, 12:15:09 PM »
Do they have LSR in Italy  :evil:
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2013, 12:42:46 PM »
I was thinking about using binary numbers on our #439 bike, but there's not room on it for numbers at least 5" high and an inch wide - - it we've got to display 110110111.  I expect it'd make it difficult for the starters to read off to the tower, too. :lol:
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2013, 08:52:58 AM »
Quote from: Seldom Seen Slim on January 11, 2013, 12:42:46 PM
I was thinking about using binary numbers on our #439 bike, but there's not room on it for numbers at least 5" high and an inch wide - - it we've got to display 110110111.  I expect it'd make it difficult for the starters to read off to the tower, too. :lol:

is that straight Binary, Hex or Octal? :-D
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Offline Bob Wanner

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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2013, 11:42:19 AM »
Not attempting to go off-thread here, but to answer Glen's question about Italian
LSR, was there not a short-lived discussion somewhere on this list about a bigga tracka in the boot of Italy awhile back. Somewhere around "Lecce" (sp?) ?
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2013, 01:12:22 PM »
Slim.....looks good in hex!    1B7

0r Morse code "cut numbers" looks cool.      ...-  .--  -.
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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2013, 01:53:40 PM »
Could you just stick an abacus or slide rule on the side so you can change numbers easy?

Cleaning out a drawer last weekend and found my "mini" slide rule in it's leather belt clip case.  Memories ...

They should still teach science with a slide rule.  Why?  You should always have a good idea in your head what the answer should be before you get a final number.
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Offline manta22

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Re: Car numbers.....
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2013, 02:16:30 PM »
At least with a slide rule (mine was a Castell-Faber), you needed to keep track of the order of magnitude of the answer. Calculator users are sometimes monumentally wrong-- but to 8 decimal places.

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