• palebluethought@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ve seen this a hundred times now and it annoys me every time – there are still separate digits, they’re just attached to a central line. I can invent another way of writing 1-9999 with a “single symbol” too, here we go:

    0001 0002 00030099 01009998 9999

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      Right but that’s still disingenuous toward it, they manage to fit everything in a single glyph, which is of a standard size, and it is more information in a smaller space.

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        This number system chooses economy of paper over readability.

        A good choice in a medieval monastery where parchment is precious and time is plentiful.

        A bad choice in modern society.

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          A glyph (/ɡlɪf/ GLIF) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character".

          Courtesy of Wikipedia (emphasis mine)