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;12,54As 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).
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. |