Number Forms is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as

number A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The original examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual number ...

s, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and

Roman numerals Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, ...

. In addition to the characters in the Number Forms block, three fractions were inherited from

ISO-8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in ...

, which was incorporated whole as the Latin-1 Supplement block.

List of characters

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History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Number Forms block:

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List of characters

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History

See also

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