On Tuesday 21 July 2015 13:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > BTW my boys have just mailed me their latest: > >>>> 九.九九 > > 9.99 > > Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether > that ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'? >
I don't speak or read Chinese, so I could be completely wrong, but my understanding is that Chinese does not distinguish between the numeral 9 and the word 'nine', they are both spelled the same, 九. I think that the distinction you are looking for doesn't really exist in Chinese. However, 90 would not be written as nine-zero, 九零, but as nine-ten 九十. Ninety-one, I believe, would be written as nine-ten-nine: 九十一. Decimal numbers, however, copy the European usage: 91.1 = 九一.一. See also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list