Re: Missing Arabic and Syriac characters in Unicode

2001-09-29 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This includes 'Subscript Alef' and 'Turned Damma' (Ulta Pesh), used in Iran and Pakistan; MMA I think these are also used in Arab countries, because even my Arabic teacher MMA who's from Syria referred to this ulta pesh as a Koranic sign. Hm, as

RE: [OT] Roman numeral arithmetic

2001-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
Roman numerals _together with some form of abacus_ were far superior to Arabic numerals for commercial calculations until the appearance of decimal adding machines. The user had to memorize the manipulations for the addition table, including carries, which is no harder than modern paper and

RE: Shape of the US Dollar Sign

2001-09-29 Thread Carl W. Brown
Michka, I have also heard that the dollar sign come from a U superimposed over an S and the bottom of the U was dropped. This would be hard to do on a typewriter because the two lines would be so close that they would be indistinct and would fill with lint from the ribbon. I suspect that the

Re: Shape of the US Dollar Sign

2001-09-29 Thread Alain LaBonté
A 09:31 2001-09-28 -0700, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan a écrit : I tend to look up on the following site, where such info can always be found tucked away: http://www.uselessknowledge.com/word/dollar.shtml [Alain] Curiously enough, to add to even more useless and even misleading knowledge, I will