From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 17:04:36 CST
On 03/08/2011 02:32 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 9:28 PM, Tiago Estill de Noronha wrote:
>>
>> How about assigning a whole plane (one of the currently unassigned
>> ones) for digit characters, starting from the digit for zero at the
>> beggining and going up in sequence; without defining the actual
>> appearance of the digits (different fonts would draw them their own
>> way). This wouldn't deal with ambiguity between different bases, but
>> would allow standardsation of digits for writing numbers in lots of
>> bases, all the way up to somewhere around base 65535
>>
> Not gonna happen.
Another solution in search of a problem. Ken answers pretty
definitively; I just add a note that if you *do* have some
special-purpose application which would find it extra-useful to have a
plane full of digits (experience has not yet provided any general
applications which seem to need this), I direct your attention to planes
15 and 16, which are waiting to be stuffed as full of digits as you
could want.
~mark
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