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Oh how I wish the glyphs started at the top right and moved anti clockwise one quadrant for each power of two, to be consistent with right handed coordinate sys
by _9hey 4y ago
Oh how I wish the glyphs started at the top right and moved anti clockwise one quadrant for each power of two, to be consistent with right handed coordinate systems
- timeaway 4y agoYup, and besides the counter-clockwise for consistency, I would like them even more if: * Each stroke were 1 bit, so the numerals would be just a more "compact" representation for binary numbers. * Even better if they can be represented with a seven-segment display (or other similar displays). (Though I can't blame them, since these two things didn't even exist back then.)
- downvotetruth 4y agoGlyphs have to be written in an orientation; bidirection (or higher symmetric) layouts would impose either writing the words left to right & right to left, which would cause smearing when writing with ink with a dominant hand, or mirroring the glyphs themselves, which would make reading & writing words much more difficult.