Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > There is also another fact which may be interesting. My father, when he > was a high school student, had some advanced mathematic course, where they > also studied computation in base more than ten. They used Persian digits > for zero to nine, and lowercase greek letters alpha, beta, ... for digits > more than nine.
So what we really need are combining number characters: one for the digit value and one for the base. But oh no! only integer bases up to (number of code points allotted). How will we cope. Al.