On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:09 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > Shaun McCance wrote: > >So here's the Wikipedia entry on Greek numerals: > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals > > > >Would you consider its definition of the Ionic numeral system > >to be correct? Would you prefer ϛ´ or στ´ be used for 6? > >Also, I don't think I've ever seen a document with a million > >sections, so I'm going to assume it's all right for me to > >stop trying after 999,999. > > > > > Indeed, it is ok to go up to 999,999. > For number 6 please use στ´ > For 90 and 900, use the standard Ancient Greek symbols. In practical > terms I believe those two numbers will not pop up very often. > It is the most common in modern Greek, though there are some occurences > of ϛ´. > (Source: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1938.pdf)
Quick question: An inverted acute is placed before a character to make it larger by a factor of 1000. So δ´ is 4, but ,δ´ is 4000. All well and good. But then, we're using στ instead of ϛ for 6. There's no ambiguity there, because σ and τ are both digits in the 100s places, so they would never otherwise appear together. But now, what do we do when we want 6000? Is it jut ,στ´ or do we prefix both characters, as in ,σ,τ´? With the former, it's not clear if it means ,ϛ´ = 6000 or ,σ´ + τ´ = 200300. Do I prefix both characters? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
