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From: roberts@sunray.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: What's in a name?
Message-ID: <7517@sunray.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 22:05:06 GMT
References: <2716@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2716@munnari.oz.au> ok@mudla.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard O'Keefe) writes:

>      ... Once upon a time Roman parents
> with a lot of sons would start naming them with numbers: Tertius (3),
> Quadratus(?) (4), Quintus (5), Sixtus (6), Septimus (7) and so on.
  ^^^^^^^^^

That's Quartus, Richard.

Good thing Quintus (the company) didn't follow the other latinate sibling
differentiation scheme, which was the one adopted at my old school:

     Max(imus), Ma(jor), Mi(nor), Min(imus), ...   :-)

Every time a new generation was introduced on the tail end, everyone
earlier on the scale got bumped up one.

Robert_S
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