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Cinder Spires Airship Specs So Far
knnn:
--- Quote from: raidem on October 09, 2015, 06:06:51 PM ---I like it and it could suggest a roman history to this new world.
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Thing is, the Spirestone and the vat technology implies an advanced civilization that has declined. Reverting to roman numerals after (presumably) knowing about positional notation seems a little funny.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 09, 2015, 06:57:38 PM ---Thing is, the Spirestone and the vat technology implies an advanced civilization that has declined. Reverting to roman numerals after (presumably) knowing about positional notation seems a little funny.
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"Reverting" seems a little extreme. It's been 700 years since Roman numerals have started to decline in our history, and they're still fairly common.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 09, 2015, 07:07:16 PM ---"Reverting" seems a little extreme. It's been 700 years since Roman numerals have started to decline in our history, and they're still fairly common.
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Sure, because there is such a strong Roman influence on western civilzation. Even so, you'll see them mainly for small numbers (e.g. to number pages in an index instead of using a,b,c). I don't think you'll generally find numbers over 100, unless someone is trying to explicitly make something feel archaic.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 09, 2015, 07:15:18 PM ---Sure, because there is such a strong Roman influence on western civilzation. Even so, you'll see them mainly for small numbers (e.g. to number pages in an index instead of using a,b,c). I don't think you'll generally find numbers over 100, unless someone is trying to explicitly make something feel archaic.
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There's a strong Roman-like influence on the Spires, too. Overall though, I agree that the D probably isn't a Roman numeral. It takes up too much room to write large Roman numerals.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 09, 2015, 07:25:44 PM ---There's a strong Roman-like influence on the Spires, too. Overall though, I agree that the D probably isn't a Roman numeral. It takes up too much room to write large Roman numerals.
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Well, at least in Spire Albion. There's hints that other spires have different influences.
Still, to get roman influence on a spire you need a space-faring race to come from "elsewhere" and build the spires/vat/hydroponics, then lose a lot of its tech. That implies longer than 700 years.
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