Re: Urgent call for clarification of Armenian numbering rules

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> "Is there any suggestion that use of letters as numerals is not merely
> historical?"
>
> Armenian books still use the letters-as-numerals for page numbers.
> Otherwise, to my knowledge, this system is obsolete.

I've been struggling to find examples, partly because I don't read Armenian, partly because it's difficult to search for something meaningful, but probably also because not many people know that it works yet, but it's in use here http://www.omniglot.com/babel/armenian.htm for what that's worth. But I did also see a list using created with this numbering system on a web page talking containing contemporary text and without using <li> tags (ie. by putting the numbers at the beginnings of paragraphs), so they must have really have wanted to use it. I noted that it was using lowercase numerals.

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