Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-04-02 Thread Garth Wallace
On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: Having said that, I note that the numeric value of one character has been reduced in the Unicode data: U+2189 VULGAR FRACTION ZERO THIRDS is given the numeric value of 0 rather that 0/3. Could that be because it's intended

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-04-01 Thread Karl Williamson
On 03/31/2015 11:30 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Karl Williamson public at khwilliamson dot com wrote: It's a small matter to add code to reduce the UCD-specified rational numbers, but it's just one more complication to have to deal with along with the many that the UCD already presents, and if there

RE: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-04-01 Thread Doug Ewell
Karl Williamson public at khwilliamson dot com wrote: Is it a problem that DerivedNumericValues.txt doesn't match UnicodeData.txt in this regard? (That is, the derived file comes with irreducible rationals) Not if you follow the loose matching rule UAX44-LM1 (see earlier message) which says

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-31 Thread Doug Ewell
Karl Williamson public at khwilliamson dot com wrote: It's a small matter to add code to reduce the UCD-specified rational numbers, but it's just one more complication to have to deal with along with the many that the UCD already presents, and if there is not a good reason the data for these

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-30 Thread Karl Williamson
On 03/29/2015 03:41 AM, Andrew West wrote: On 28 March 2015 at 20:05, Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com wrote: Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is written expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to their lowest form. That seems to be a

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-29 Thread Andrew West
On 28 March 2015 at 20:05, Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com wrote: Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is written expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to their lowest form. That seems to be a rather rash statement. I have software

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
How would you note the numeric value property of the mathematical pi symbol, if you use 0.5, assuming that it should be written as a single decimal value without using any operator ? You can't because there's an infinite number of decimals, unless you explciitly says that the numeric property is

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-28 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
Unless there is a value in documenting the value of the numerator and denominator, in which case this should be prominently explained in the documentation. Or is that written down somewhere already? A./ On 3/28/2015 1:05 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-28 Thread Karl Williamson
On 03/28/2015 02:25 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: Unless there is a value in documenting the value of the numerator and denominator, in which case this should be prominently explained in the documentation. It seems to me that the character name provides sufficient documentation of the

Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-28 Thread Ken Whistler
On 3/28/2015 1:05 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical values are not reduced to their lowest forms. Is there a compelling reason that 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R6/12;N; is not written as 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX

Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

2015-03-28 Thread Karl Williamson
In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical values are not reduced to their lowest forms. Is there a compelling reason that 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R6/12;N; is not written as 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R1/2;N; given that there is