Open statementreply opened 4 years ago
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in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane 1 (except for 〇 in BMP), which has serious compatibility issue. The best way to realize it is making an OTF font which shows Arabic numerals as 筭籌, and alternates vertical and horizontal styles. This OTF font should be a Variable Font, with two axes: width and weight. I will implement this next year.Here is an example taken from the book 測圓海鏡細草.
Agreed that positional notation is a more practical choice for a programming language. It feels, however, less amusing :)
Perhaps we could parse numbers as positional system with optional power-of-10 number words. This would allow both (and more) formats:
Pros & Cons:
一笑。
六又零二釐二毫進二十三
=六千零二十二垓
=6.022e+23
,六又六分二釐六毫退三十四
=6.626e-34
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