On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> 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 reference, the Japanese dictionary built into OS X defines U+5793 as: Gai Numerical unit. 10,000 “kei”s (kei = U+4EAC). 10 to the 20th power. Formerly also used for 10 “kei”s. Reference-deskily-yours, -- Carl Johnson _______________________________________________ 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
