On 03/28/2015 02:25 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote:
> Unless there is a value in documenting the value of the numerator and
> denominator, in which case this should be prominently explained in the
> documentation.
It seems to me that the character name provides sufficient documentation
of the numerator and denominator
Or is that written down somewhere already?
>
> A./
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> On 3/28/2015 1:05 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>> In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical values are not reduced to their
>> lowest forms. Is there a compelling reason that
>>
>> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;6/12;N;;;;;
>>
>> is not written as
>>
>> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>>
>> given that there is also a
>>
>> 109BD;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION ONE HALF;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>>
>> Aren't the numeric values of U+109FB and U+109BD the same?
>>
>> Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is
>> written expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to
>> their lowest form.
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