Cascade said:Assyrians have their own number system?
I don't mean to upset you, but I don't think there is a way to seperate the two. I'm not a pro, so I hope Carlo can help or someone else.. cause I think Carlo was always very into such stuff. He was the genius when it came to language.mrzurnaci said:There has to be some kind of notation that tells the reader "this is regular letters and these are letters used as numerals"
shekwanta said:I don't mean to upset you, but I don't think there is a way to seperate the two. I'm not a pro, so I hope Carlo can help or someone else.. cause I think Carlo was always very into such stuff. He was the genius when it came to language.
But I'm like 90% sure that one can't tell the difference between "letters as numbers" and "letters as letters", cause the other day I was looking at this picture and there was a sentence written under it and I couldn't read this one specific word cause it was a mixture of letters that made no sense (yoth and dallath and something else), so I took a look at the translation and it was a date (the letters were numerals representing a year).
Also, when my mom used to teach me the "numeral system" when I was a kid, she never mentioned "how to know whether this is a number or a letter"..
But like I said.. I'm not 100% sure!
I agreemrzurnaci said:If that's the case, we need some kind of notation that let's a reader know that this set of letters is to be read as numerals, not normal letters!
shekwanta said:I agree
mrzurnaci said:I have one idea, how using some kind of thing like a small version of the letter 'meem' to denote that these letters are menyuta and put another tiny meem at the end of the numbers?