contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months agoA Cool guide to Cistercian Numeralsi.redd.itexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1411arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1398arrow-down1external-linkA Cool guide to Cistercian Numeralsi.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareanguo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·5 months agoWhat bugs me most is that because of their perfect symmetry, if you turn the paper around, the glyphs are still perfectly legible, just give you the wrong number.
minus-squaredubyakay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoI bet they scribbled these mostly on the walls of their cells in their Monastery. You’d have to hang upside down from your bunk to misread it. In all seriousness, wait until you hear that they wrote these horizontally when combined with Latin script.
What bugs me most is that because of their perfect symmetry, if you turn the paper around, the glyphs are still perfectly legible, just give you the wrong number.
I bet they scribbled these mostly on the walls of their cells in their Monastery. You’d have to hang upside down from your bunk to misread it.
In all seriousness, wait until you hear that they wrote these horizontally when combined with Latin script.