Amaury Forgeot d'Arc writes: > I don't think so. Unicode 3.2 did contain two entries with large > numeric values. The file Unihan-3.2.0.txt contains these two > lines: > > U+4EAC kPrimaryNumeric 10,000,000,000,000,000 ten quadrillion > (American) > U+5793 kPrimaryNumeric 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 hundred quintillion > (American)
They are related to the Chinese numbering system. I recall U+4EAC having that value from my textbooks (it's the "kyo" in Tokyo, and the "jing" in "Beijing", so quite memorable), and U+5793 looks familiar (it's not otherwise used in Japanese AFAIK, so I'm not sure, but it seems quite plausible that there would be a character for 10000^5). > For some reason newer versions of the unicode standard removed > these values. The characters are still there. The numeric values were probably removed because in practice they're not actually used (at least, almost never in Japanese). It seems a little sad to save 150 bytes or so in a table and lose the historical meanings. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
