Talk:Numerals in Unicode

Ancient Greek Numerals

The document describing the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane entities for ancient Greek numeral forms can be found here. Larry 04:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Characters for irrational numbers, sets and other constants

The Planck constant is a dimensional quantity, not a number. It does not differ, conceptually, from a unit of measurement. Something is apparently misunderstood either in the standard or in this interpretation. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:03, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear wording

The into contains:

"The decimal digits are repeated in 23 separate blocks: twice in Arabic. Six additional blocks contain the digits again as rich text or legacy software compatibility characters"

It's not being made cleat why there is a colon after "blocks", it looks like it's starting a list to explain the details of the 23 seperate blocks, but it fizzles out after two and six.

I don't actually understand what that sentence is supposed to convey --79.173.244.169 (talk) 01:14, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So, why the Roman numerals block?

From the section on Roman numerals:

One reason for the existence of pre-combined numbers is to facilitate the setting of multiple-letter numbers (such as VIII) in a single "square" in Asian vertical text. Another reason is for 12-hour clock-face use.

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The characters in the range U+2160–217F are present only for compatibility with other character set standards which provide these characters.

This seems contradictory: first use cases is presented, but then these are effectively negated. Which is the rationale for including these characters in Unicode? QVVERTYVS (hm?) 16:08, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomenclature

The article is very unclear about the distinction between what Unicode calls 'European digits' (i.e. 0123456789, traditionally & confusingly called 'Arabic numerals') and the different numeral characters used in other scripts such as Arabic. I believe Unicode uses the term 'Arabic-Indic' to refer to two similar but distinct sets of characters used in different parts of the Middle & Far East, quite different from the European characters. Ben Finn (talk) 21:04, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]