Re: Writing Babylonian Numbers in Unicode

From: Michael Probst <michael.probst03_at_web.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:51:27 +0200

Am Samstag, den 28.04.2012, 15:56 +0100 schrieb Richard Wordingham:
> However, there does not appear to be anything for *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC
> SIGN TWO U, for which one might expect *CUNEIFORM SIGN MAN (Borger 2003
> no. 708).
>
> So, how does one distinguish '20' from '610' (= 10×60 + 10)? I
> resorted to distinguishing them as <U+1230B,U+1230B> and <U+1230B,
> U+200A HAIR SPACE, U+1230B>, though I only used HAIR SPACE because
> U+2009 THIN SPACE was not available. However, should '20' perhaps be
> encoded as <U+1230B,ZWJ,U+1230B>? Should there actually be a CUNEIFORM
> NUMERIC SIGN TWO U?

One is not compelled to construct U+3039 (〹) ,twenty' from two U+3038
(〸) ,ten', so a CUNEIFORM TWO U may well be missing.

Michael
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