Um, @&$!#
That explains a lot. It turns out people often switch to upper case speaking numbers to me.
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You can use absolute numbers like ”The answer to life, the universe and everything is |42|.”
XXXXII!!! So simple!
What if the number is negative, do I say “-|42|?”
Please surrender your license to math.
𝟙𝟚𝟛𝟜𝟝𝟞𝟟𝟠𝟡𝟘
That’s what lining numbers are
nerd mode engaged.
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/54423/why-dont-upper-case-numbers-exist#54425
they actually are usually upper case, it’s the lower case that are less widely used.
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As far as I know, that is the ‘number case’. Where the difference between upper and lower case is defined based on alignment of the numbers with baseline of typography.
I think the post is taking about ‘letter case’. Which we commonly use to yell at people through text. I don’t think there is an equivalent like that in case of numbers. Mainly because numbers came from languages which are unicase by default. Like the Indian languages and Arabic.
Wikipedia says that they are sometimes referred to as lowercase.
Most font packages call it old style figures.
In typography class we were taught to call the lining and non-lining figures.
It is lowercase only. But lowercase in number case. The upper and lower case is distinguished based on alignment in this, where in text case it is based on shape and/or size.
Edit: my use of the words number case and letter case does not look like the standard words. But the concept still exist. Check this: https://totallytype.com/figures.php
6 and 8 being all “no one tells me what to do!” and staying the same.
That can be used to play pranks on people…
IDK, I don’t think old style and lining figures are analogous to lower- and uppercase letters. They’re not really different glyphs, at least not like lower- and uppercase letters are, and I would see them more as different ways of typesetting the same glyph.
Edit: Wikipedia does not agree with me.
9oo.
Just sayin’.
I’m not sure if Roman Numerals are the best choice for statistics
It’s made up numbers anyway…
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The numbers are always yelling
They actually are. And there are lowercase numbers in several fonts, which people really should use more.
Just use an exclamation mark. It’ll be fine. Like so:
5!
10!
See? No real difference and now the number feels bigger!
Big difference there, those are
120
3628800
I think you mean:
120!
3628800!
Really emphasize it, ya know!?
Embiggened by several factors.
Calculator 2: The Overbiggening
I don’t know how to explain it, but 5 is loud
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Relevant video by mad lad Tom7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk
There truly is an XKCD for everything…
The subreddit law of comics (lemmy communities just can’t reach that level for now)
— It will cost you $253. — Are you kidding me? TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS?
$253? Try, SEVENTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX DOLLARS!
They are in the Chinese numbers.
陸柒 (/s)
PG, DNLMHGC
/joke (Cantonese people should know xD)
EIGHT
EIGHT
