On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:20:33 +0100, Owain
wrote:

Rod wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
But how do you write 3/4 in Roman?
Surely they must have used XXIImm? Or should that be XXIIMM?

0.LXXV uncia?

(Yes, I know there's a flaw in there somewhere...)

Or maybe they didn't have any pipework smaller than one digitus and
microbore heating really only became popular in the MCMLXs.


Yes - hypocausts use pipes a wee bit bigger...

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Frank Erskine