- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:00:04 -0700
- To: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Cc: Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com>, public-i18n-core@w3.org, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, www-international-request@w3.org, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:54 AM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com> wrote: >> If I understand what Tab Atkins means, in the first case (paragraph 5), the >> number 10 will be expressed with the tenth letter of the alphabet and the >> number 11 will be expressed with the eleventh letter of the alphabet >> (without the final forms). In the second case (paragraph 9), the number 10 >> will be expressed with the tenth letter of the alphabet and the number 11 >> will be expressed with the tenth letter followed by the first letter. >> Both systems are legitimate, but the second one is more natural in modern >> usage. > > Afaik the second system is also more natural in classic forms. The second system is what I use now. The 11th letter is used for 20, the 13th for 30, etc., until you exhaust the alphabet at 400. > Tab: note that at least 15 and 16 are written as 9+6 and 9+7 instead > of 10+(5,6). There are actually a couple of other amusing exceptions, > see: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53012 > > for a discussion. Yup, the 15/16 exception is handled if you carefully read the definition in the spec. Multiple sources have told me that the other exceptions are optional. ~TJ
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