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A single character able to hold 1 to 9,999 is pretty compact
by ape4 6y ago
A single character able to hold 1 to 9,999 is pretty compact
- VeninVidiaVicii 6y agoIt seems like it’d take quite a bit of staring to decipher.
- hpfr 6y agoAfter reading the page, it doesn’t seem too bad. Each corner represents a digit so you read each symbol one corner at a time. Arithmetic wouldn’t even be that different to learn compared to Arabic numerals since each digit still has a specific place.
- kgeist 6y agoYou only need to remember 9 permutations (which themselves constitute a pretty logical sequence), the rest is a simple combination of them
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoI thought the same thing. We do have pretty compact ways to write now though. For example 15,000 can be written as 15k.
- alisonkisk 6y agoIt's pretty similar to writing 4 Arabic digits in a square formation.
- JdeBP 6y agoThere's the notion of "Greeking" in fonts. Given that people have recently been reminded of this system again, I wonder whether the Unicode fallback BMP font that renders glyphs as boxes with four digits, one in each corner, will start to be called "Cistercianization". I suppose that the fact that it is a slight misnomer for a hexadecimal system will, as it usually does with misnomers, only encourage the adoption of the term. (-:
- max_ 6y agoIt cannot count beyond 10,000 Edit: I meant 10,000 not 1,000
- boygobbo 6y ago4 boxes at 4 corners = 9,999
- Jtsummers 6y agoIt seems to use all 4 quadrants around the stave (vertical or horizontal) at least in some forms. Each quadrant can mark the digits 0-9 letting it represent 0-9999. Though 0 isn't called out in the diagrams I'm seeing on the page, the stave by itself should be sufficient to represent that whether the users of it intended it that way or not. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Cistercian_numerals.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Cisterci...
- detaro 6y agoHow do you come to that conclusion?
- max_ 6y agowas a typo sorry.
- popol12 6y agohow about adding a second character next ? Then you would count to 100,000,000. Just like we do with arabic numbers actually, putting them next to each others. With a single of our digits you can only count to 10 !