From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 00:20:11 CDT
On 7/28/2010 9:33 PM, karl williamson wrote:
>>> The digits (一、 二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、〇) are used both
>>> as letters and as decimal place-value digits, and they are scattered
>>> widely....the same characters are also used as elements in a system
>>> that doesn't use place-value, but uses special characters to show
>>> powers of 10.
>
> Is it the case that a sequence of just these characters, without any
> intervening characters, and not adjacent to the special characters you
> mention always mean a place-value decimal number?
>
>
No, these characters are also letters. So single character sequences
cannot be taken as numeric, unless you have information from context.
If you know that the string is a number, but don't know the format,
then, I believe, the absence of the characters for 10, 100, etc. would
indeed imply that the notation is place-value.
A./
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