Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-29 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2012-04-28 12:50, skrev Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:50:15 -0700 Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote: On 4/27/2012 10:45 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: If they are to be adopted by the CLDR, the digits need to be coded consecutively. I

Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-28 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:50:15 -0700 Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote: On 4/27/2012 10:45 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: If they are to be adopted by the CLDR, the digits need to be coded consecutively. I doubt this matters in any case, because this proposed use is for a vigesimal system,

Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-27 Thread Doug Ewell
David Starner prosfilaes at gmail dot com wrote: I don't see these on the list of proposed scripts or on the roadmap, but Wikipedia*, citing a newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative**, that there is now a Inupaiq numeral system supporting a vigesimal counting system. The proposal

Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:32:09 -0700 David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote: The proposal seems trivial, except for the minor problem of establishing sufficient use to justify encoding. If they are to be adopted by the CLDR, the digits need to be coded consecutively. However, the symbols for

Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-27 Thread Ken Whistler
On 4/27/2012 10:45 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: If they are to be adopted by the CLDR, the digits need to be coded consecutively. I doubt this matters in any case, because this proposed use is for a vigesimal system, which has digits 0..19, not digits 0..9. Trying to treat the first 10 digits

Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

2012-04-26 Thread David Starner
I don't see these on the list of proposed scripts or on the roadmap, but Wikipedia*, citing a newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative**, that there is now a Inupaiq numeral system supporting a vigesimal counting system. The proposal seems trivial, except for the minor problem of