Disputatio:Numeri Romani

CalRis25 10:47 oct 1, 2004 (UTC): There's already an article covering Roman numerals. For some reasons, however, that article has the name Numerus which is misleading because it merely covers Roman numerals. In order to reflect the article naming system used by en.Wikipedia, shouldn't we move the content of Numerus here? In that case Numerus probably should be removed or be earmarked for the content .en:Numeral_system has right now, or perhaps that of en:Number. What do you think?

I think this is a good idea. There should be an article Numerus, but it should cover numbers in general, not only roman numerics.

between 0 and 1

I would like to know how Romans used to write the numbers between 0 and 1, decimal numbers. In the page fr:Unité de mesure romaine, we can read a text, the Gromatici veteres and at the 8th line of this text, we can read that Cubitus habet pedem Iς what is translated in french La coudée compte 1 pied et demi (there is one foot and a half in a coudée). could we suppose that they wrote 1/2 with the symbol "ς"? what about other decimal numbers? -- Thoma D. 08:43, 21 Augusti 2007 (UTC)

That sign is a kind of abbreviation for "semi". There is a quite good explanation for numbers between 0 und 1 in the english as well as in some other wikipedias.