This isn't directly related to Unicode, but I thought this would be a good place to ask.
Specifically, I'm curious about figure 14 (Gordon 1982) from WG2 N3218 [http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N3218.pdf], which says: > Whereas our so-called Arabic numerals > are ten in number (0–9), the Roman nu- > merals number nine: I = 1 (one), V = 5, X > = 10, L = 50, C = 100, Đ = 500 (D reg- > ularly with middle bar, the modern form > being simply D), a symbol for 1,000 (see > below), Q = 500,000, and a rather strange > symbol for 6: ↅ. Now that Q = 500,000 bit seems a little odd to me. I've never seen that anywhere else. Does anyone know where it came from? Is there real usage of Q for 500,000? —Ben Scarborough