Am 2008-07-29 um 22:49 schrieb Steve Peter:
well, you're an original 'roman' guy so you'll get the easy creation question
So, someone with a Peruan IP will get a riddle with Maya numbers?
The Maya were further north, in what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. Peru was home to the Inca, so Peruvians should get quipu.
Oh sorry, should have refreshed my geography knowledge before posting. But quipu is decimal, that's no encryption ;-) (Recently read an article on ancient numbering systems that pointed out that big empires worked only with good arithmetics, i.e. quipu or Indian/Arabic numbers succeeded, the Roman empire grew too big for their complicated numbers... Does someone know which system the Carthagians used?) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)