(28-06-2020, 10:33 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP wrote:Obviously positional characteristics of glyphs have little to do with languages or numbers and everything to do with the writing systems used to represent them.
Positional characteristics of glyphs (if they are numeric) have a great deal to do with numbers.
31 is not the same as 13. 143 is not the same as 413. VI is not the same as IV. Without the position, you can't interpret the numbers.
Hi JKP, you wrote that "this is not typical of natural language, but is absolutely essential for numbers". What you are saying now seems to me to be the same for written languages and written numbers. 31 is different from 13 and 'no' is different from 'on'. I am still missing your point. Isn't position also typically relevant for written languages?