<story><title>Base-4 fractions in Telugu</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/math/telugu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vorg</author><text>&amp;gt; the digits for 3 have either three horizonal strokes ౾ or three vertical strokes ౻, and the others similarly. I have an idea that the alternating vertical-horizontal system might have served as an error-detection mechanism&lt;p&gt;The Chinese Suzhou numerals use alternating 〡〢〣 and 一二三 but for a different reason:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;quot;21&amp;quot; is written as &amp;quot;〢一&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;〢〡&amp;quot; which can be confused with &amp;quot;3&amp;quot; (〣)
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<story><title>Base-4 fractions in Telugu</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/math/telugu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eponeponepon</author><text>Telugu&amp;#x27;s a spectacular language - it&amp;#x27;s ancient, it&amp;#x27;s spoken by tens of millions of people, it has its own cinema industry and an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed... and yet almost nobody outside the subcontinent even knows it exists.</text></comment>