Do non-positional number systems present security issues?

From: karl williamson (public@khwilliamson.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2010 - 15:28:25 CDT

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Tamil's digits are not positional according to Richard Gillam. They
have General category of Nd. Could this be used to cause a naive
program to calculate an incorrect value of an input number, such that
mention of this possibility would be warranted in TR36?

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