Post by Buffoonery on May 19, 2015 3:26:47 GMT -8
My Symbols:
The first symbol I chose was ᕍ, it is Unicode 154D which requires unicode 3.0. Unicode is already up to 7.0 so I thought my symbol should be safe. The symbol is found within 1000–1FFF and is within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/1000-1FFF
As for my second symbol, I chose Ɛ, which is Unicode 0190; it requires unicode 1.0. You may know this symbol as Episilon. This symbol is found within 0000–0FFF and is within the Latin Extended-B block.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF
The reasoning behind my choices:
When I was looking around on various forums within z13.invisionfree.com/DozensOnline and elsewhere, I was introduced to the three main standards:
Letters : A B
: X E
: T E
Greek : χ Ɛ (Chi and Epsilon)
: τ Σ (Tau and Sigma)
Pitmans : ᘔ Ɛ (U+1614 , an inverted and reverse 2)
(U+0190 a reverse 3)
: _ Ɛ (U+07D6 , a reverse 7) I couldn't display it on my computer
(U+0190 a reverse 3)
I found the reverse 3, or "Ɛ" very elegant. It really captures the number "Eleven" that we know in decimal and since Ɛleven is easy to remember, I stuck with it. It also has a really clean unicode, 0190, a nice round number, easy to remember.
As for the other number, dec, I had problems with it. I saw all the versions of dec, and I still didn't like it. Every attempt to retrieve the symbols seemed difficult or confusing, and letters were a poor method to go around this. Just imagine typing T6, X7, χ8 or A4 and expecting someone to understand what you mean. Worse yet, try writing a math problem 5×χ2×χ×4 = x3+χ6. No, just no, I refuse to use the χ, X, T, or A "digits".
I wasn't about to just go through the whole list of unicode of literally millions of characters to find the right symbol. There had to be some meaning to this number, it's dec, it's decimal, it's not ten. If it was ten, it would get confused with 10. I took a long break, figured it would come to me if I relax.
This turned out to be the right course of action, because the next week or so, I was staring at a digital clock thinking about dozenal time. What came to my mind was, how would you put any of the standard "dec" symbols on a digital clock. I mean, sure the Ɛ works, and it's different enough from 3 just like 6 is from 9. But dec would not be able to fit on there:
T would be missing the top left or top right line ending up like a 7 or reverse 7.
A could work, but some clocks spell out words, for instance an oven might say, "BAKE".
ᘔ would look exactly like a 2.
The reverse 7 could also work, maybe.
But then, after fooling around with the:
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configuration, I started to notice that I could spell a d with it:
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aww, this is great except for one thing, it would get confused with d. Wait, what about:
_|
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It's a neat symbol and it can't be confused with d. Now comes the hard part, how do I find this amongst the millions of characters in Unicode, it probably doesn't exist!
After a little googling, I found a site called, shapecatcher.com/ and drew out my shape. Sure enough, ᕍ came out. My initial responce was, "It's probably an abstract symbol, one that most computers don't have included." But then, how is it in the second library, 1000–1FFF? It's perfect, it hits all the requirements for a good symbol, it:
-can be represented digitally
-can be found in unicode without being abstract
-represents the number with the shape
-doesn't get jumbled in algebra
and that is how I found ᕍ.
The first symbol I chose was ᕍ, it is Unicode 154D which requires unicode 3.0. Unicode is already up to 7.0 so I thought my symbol should be safe. The symbol is found within 1000–1FFF and is within the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/1000-1FFF
As for my second symbol, I chose Ɛ, which is Unicode 0190; it requires unicode 1.0. You may know this symbol as Episilon. This symbol is found within 0000–0FFF and is within the Latin Extended-B block.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF
The reasoning behind my choices:
When I was looking around on various forums within z13.invisionfree.com/DozensOnline and elsewhere, I was introduced to the three main standards:
Letters : A B
: X E
: T E
Greek : χ Ɛ (Chi and Epsilon)
: τ Σ (Tau and Sigma)
Pitmans : ᘔ Ɛ (U+1614 , an inverted and reverse 2)
(U+0190 a reverse 3)
: _ Ɛ (U+07D6 , a reverse 7) I couldn't display it on my computer
(U+0190 a reverse 3)
I found the reverse 3, or "Ɛ" very elegant. It really captures the number "Eleven" that we know in decimal and since Ɛleven is easy to remember, I stuck with it. It also has a really clean unicode, 0190, a nice round number, easy to remember.
As for the other number, dec, I had problems with it. I saw all the versions of dec, and I still didn't like it. Every attempt to retrieve the symbols seemed difficult or confusing, and letters were a poor method to go around this. Just imagine typing T6, X7, χ8 or A4 and expecting someone to understand what you mean. Worse yet, try writing a math problem 5×χ2×χ×4 = x3+χ6. No, just no, I refuse to use the χ, X, T, or A "digits".
I wasn't about to just go through the whole list of unicode of literally millions of characters to find the right symbol. There had to be some meaning to this number, it's dec, it's decimal, it's not ten. If it was ten, it would get confused with 10. I took a long break, figured it would come to me if I relax.
This turned out to be the right course of action, because the next week or so, I was staring at a digital clock thinking about dozenal time. What came to my mind was, how would you put any of the standard "dec" symbols on a digital clock. I mean, sure the Ɛ works, and it's different enough from 3 just like 6 is from 9. But dec would not be able to fit on there:
T would be missing the top left or top right line ending up like a 7 or reverse 7.
A could work, but some clocks spell out words, for instance an oven might say, "BAKE".
ᘔ would look exactly like a 2.
The reverse 7 could also work, maybe.
But then, after fooling around with the:
_
|_|
|_|
configuration, I started to notice that I could spell a d with it:
_|
|_|
aww, this is great except for one thing, it would get confused with d. Wait, what about:
_|
|_
It's a neat symbol and it can't be confused with d. Now comes the hard part, how do I find this amongst the millions of characters in Unicode, it probably doesn't exist!
After a little googling, I found a site called, shapecatcher.com/ and drew out my shape. Sure enough, ᕍ came out. My initial responce was, "It's probably an abstract symbol, one that most computers don't have included." But then, how is it in the second library, 1000–1FFF? It's perfect, it hits all the requirements for a good symbol, it:
-can be represented digitally
-can be found in unicode without being abstract
-represents the number with the shape
-doesn't get jumbled in algebra
and that is how I found ᕍ.