Sexagesimal Eyes

By Vaer Last update Mar 20, 2009 — Installed 137 times.

Comparison of Sexagesimal Display Methods

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My thoughts on the subject.

As decimals:

Like our system of displaying time except that commas are used to separate integers and a semicolon to separate the fraction from the integers.

Example:

56,4,15;12,54
As alphanumerals:

Like Hexadecimal notation and what SEyes currently uses.

Each number gets it's own character from the alphanumerical range (0-9, A-Z and a-z).
Base sixty only needs up to the lower case x.

This can be pretty unreadable and it's possible for numbers to look like words.

Example:

Sexagesimal = 17,343,649,622,725,519,007

One way to make it more readable is to assign the characters that represent a number their own font. This is what SEyes does.

Problems can occur when copying the numbers as they can lose their font face making them display as letters.

Unicode:

Assign each symbol a space on the unicode private range or try and get it accepted into the official space.

Would make it so that most unicode applications can display the symbols correctly. I can't think of any disadvantages.

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