- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:14:19 +1100
- To: "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-international@w3.org, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote: >> [Adding back www-style] > > My mistake! > >> But, as with the various Han representations, only one of those is in a >> decimal system: the others are mixtures of digits and words. We can >> transform decimal to decimal easily. And I think this is adequate for >> hitting the 80% use case. > > I do not understand what you mean by "decimal". Aren't > > 三五 > 三十五 > 参拾伍 > > all decimal? Here 三 and 参 mean 3, while 五 and 伍 mean 5. > 十 and 拾 mean 10. No (see reason below). > > Aren't > >> 三〇五, >> 三百五, >> 参百五, or >> 参〇五 > （参〇伍 and 参百伍 are also possible.) > > all decimal? Here 〇 means 0, and 百 means 100. > > For representing amount of money, 参拾伍 and 参百五 are very common. > For representing years, 三五 and 三十五 are common. > > Probably your "decimal" system does not use 十, 百, 千, and so forth? You are correct. We have whole numbers using a base of 10 [1]. The word decimal is from Latin, decim(a). So we have. 1, 10, 100, 1,000 and so on to infinity. 1. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal> -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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