On Monday, July 26, 2010 09:55:30 am Doug Ewell wrote: > A superscript letter, representing the multiplier or divisor, before or > after the base unit would be plain text.
In my experimenting with fonts, I also noticed that the Unicode superscripts mentioned by Kent have a lower floor from that which is defined by Tonal, at least with Luxi Mono. Would this be a reason to encode them separately, or should the particular rendering floor be considered a font issue? > Note that this problem doesn't stop there; the tonal-system mechanism of > inventing short words for higher orders of multiplication is unspecified > beyond the (decimal) quadrillions, which is inadequate for many > scientific needs. There are many shortcomings of the Tonal system, which this proposal is not intended to address. However, it seems unfair to *assume* a shortcoming when other possibilities exist. Also, do note that your "quadrillions" equivalency is based on number of zero digits. The actual decimal equivalent is in fact about 18 quintillion.
