Re: Ancient number-encoding formats...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I should also have pointed out that such numbering systems have the 
property of anagrammability - that is, an in-range number can be written in 
any order, yet will still have the same value.

Conversely: a property that such numbers might be unlikely to have is 
*repeated letters*. So: EVA "otolol" = "ot" + "ol" + "ol" probably wouldn't 
be one of these numbers, but EVA "otolal" = "ot" + "ol" + "al" certainly 
could be.

Once again, the alphabet question returns: until such time as we have 
locked down the underlying character set (and I think we pretty much all 
agree that it probably isn't EVA per se), our path remains sharply uphill. :-/

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....