In Classical Greek scientific texts the fraction 'one half' is represented
very commonly by a symbol which looks a bit like 'less than', or like
'angle' U+2220, but followed by a prime. Is there no place for this in the
Unicode scheme of things ?
Other symbols are also found for common fractions, apart from the general
usage where a prime is added to indicate the reciprocal.
I have been converting some TLG* files to Unicode, and I notice that even
in the original TLG file the symbol is just replaced by a space. This makes
a nonsense of Ptolemy's geographical coordinates.
*TLG = Thesaurus Graecae Linguae
Raymond Mercier
- Re: Greek fractions Raymond Mercier
- Re: Greek fractions Doug Ewell
- Re: Greek fractions John Hudson
- Re: Greek fractions Doug Ewell
- Re: Greek fractions Raymond Mercier
- Re: Greek fractions Raymond Mercier
- Re: Greek fractions Raymond Mercier
- Re: Greek fractions Markus Scherer
- Re: Greek fractions Rick McGowan
- Re: Greek fractions Andrew C. West

