From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2003 - 10:45:22 EST
Hi,
It has been explained to me that the "decimal digit" property has the
following meaning: "Decimal numbers are those using in decimal-radix
number systems. In particular, the sequence of the ONE character
followed by the TWO character is interpreted as having the value of twelve".
What's the point of such a property?
I mean, it's quite clearly ignored in sentences like "My phone number is
0044-1727-6000000", or "The codepoint of the space character is U+0020".
What possible use could any mechanical algorithm make of the "decimal
digit" property that it could not equally well make of the "digit" or
"numeric" properties?
Jill
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