RE: Modern Egyptian numbers? not Coptic....?

From: E. Keown (k_isoetc@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 15:31:24 CDT

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Elaine Keown
Tucson

Hi,

Thanks to Magda Danish and Mark Shoulson---
the numbers I vaguely remember from Egypt in 1995 are
indeed at U+0660 through U+0669.

Apparently the history of numeration in Egypt is
complicated.

I'm looking at Egyptian and other numbers borrowed
into Hebrew and Aramaic during various periods. There
are at least 2 sets, none yet in Unicode.

The possible 'hieratic' numbers in earlier Hebrew are
glyphic variants (I guess) of the real Egyptian
ones---but not even one glyph is the same.

Confusing!--Elaine

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