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This set of numerals was known as Sinhala illakkam or Sinhala archaic numerals. Sinhala numerals or Sinhala illakkam were used in the Kandyan convention which was signed between Kandyan Chieftains and the British governor, Robert Brownrig, in 1815. Eleven clauses were numbered in Arabic numerals in the English part of the agreement, and the ...
Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19 N3888-A Senaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003
Sinhala Archaic Numbers Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
"A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]
Sinhala had its numerals (Sinhala illakkam), which were used from prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom in 1815. They can be seen primarily in Royal documents and artefacts. Sinhala Illakkam did not have a zero, but did have signs for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 1000. This system has been replaced by the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
It also includes the years of operation of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (1950 – 2020). The text "Central Bank of Sri Lanka" is written in all three main languages Sinhala, Tamil & English. 20 (which is the face value) of the coin is shown in the reverse with the text "Twenty Rupees" written in all three main languages Sinhala, Tamil & English.
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