Is there any recommendation on how to write Babylonian numbers in Unicode? I use the usual scheme of using the DISH series for the units and the U series for the tens.
One problem with the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block is that there is no cross reference for the low numbers. However, with the use of a chart giving signs in (modern) 'alphabetic', shape-based order I quickly identified the equivalents of: *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN ONE DISH => U+12079 CUNEIFORM SIGN DISH *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN TWO DISH => U+1222B CUNEIFORM SIGN MIN *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN ONE U => U+1230B CUNEIFORM SIGN U *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN THREE U => U+1230D CUNEIFORM SIGN U U U However, there does not appear to be anything for *CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN TWO U, for which one might expect *CUNEIFORM SIGN MAN (Borger 2003 no. 708). So, how does one distinguish '20' from '610' (= 10×60 + 10)? I resorted to distinguishing them as <U+1230B,U+1230B> and <U+1230B, U+200A HAIR SPACE, U+1230B>, though I only used HAIR SPACE because U+2009 THIN SPACE was not available. However, should '20' perhaps be encoded as <U+1230B,ZWJ,U+1230B>? Should there actually be a CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN TWO U? Richard.
