Re: ? Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal

From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@telia.com)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2010 - 02:12:20 CDT

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    Den 2010-07-25 03.09, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>:

    > On 25 Jul 2010, at 02:02, Bill Poser wrote:
    >
    >> As I said, it isn't a huge issue, but scattering the digits makes the
    >> programming a bit more complex and error-prone and the programs a little less
    >> efficient.
    >
    > But it would still *work*. So my hyperbole was not outrageous. And nobody has
    > actually scattered them. THough there are various types of "runs" in existing
    > encoded digits and numbers.

    While not formally of general category Nd (they are "No"), the superscript
    digits are a bit scattered:

    00B2;SUPERSCRIPT TWO
    00B3;SUPERSCRIPT THREE
    00B9;SUPERSCRIPT ONE
    2070;SUPERSCRIPT ZERO
    2074;SUPERSCRIPT FOUR
    2075;SUPERSCRIPT FIVE
    2076;SUPERSCRIPT SIX
    2077;SUPERSCRIPT SEVEN
    2078;SUPERSCRIPT EIGHT
    2079;SUPERSCRIPT NINE

    And there are situations where one wants to interpret them as in a
    decimal-position system.

        /kent k

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