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Fun fact: Chinese has separate "financial numerals" precisely to prevent one digit being changed to another, the way that could be easily done with regular nume
by crazygringo 9mo ago
Fun fact: Chinese has separate "financial numerals" precisely to prevent one digit being changed to another, the way that could be easily done with regular numerals like turning 一 (1) into 三 (3) or 十 (10). A lot harder when they look like 壹, 叁, and 拾 instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Financial_numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Financial_num...
- lovich 9mo agoNeat, you made me one of the 10 thousand today.
- ted_bunny 9mo agoAaand you broke it
- spragl 9mo agoAnother fun fact: German registration plates use a font for which it is difficult to change one digit to another, for example by adding a bit of tape. The font is called FE-Schrift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
- drfuchs 9mo agoBut they left S, X, and Z rotationally symmetric, so if you choose a non-palindrome vanity plate with only those characters, you can mount it upside-down and fool plate-readers.
- askl 9mo agoBut at least in Germany the plates always start with some letters and end in numbers. So mounting it upside down can't result in a valid plate.
- inanutshellus 9mo agoCustom ("vanity") plates aren't allowed in Germany?
- phatskat 8mo agoInteresting. I’ve heard that in the states, some police department plate lookup software will treat similar shapes the same. So if you search “B5-004” it will also match BS004, B5O04, etc
- RobotToaster 9mo agoInteresting, is there a background to how they created the financial numerals? The standard ones seem obvious.