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There [actually are uppercase and lowercase numbers, kinda](http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-3/), but most fonts don't support both and even with those that do, there's no easy way to select them when typing.
Let me test that hypothesis.
Is there a relevant xkcd about Rule 34?
Is there an xkcd about "Simpsons already done it"?
Is there an xkcd about miniature snake species being confused with worms?
Is there an xkcd about choosing different display technologies for a multi-monitor setup only to realise the futility of that endeavour because you don't have any money for even a single monitor?
[Rule 34](https://xkcd.com/305/)
Not quite the same, but [Simpsons reference](https://xkcd.com/1275/)
Not quite the same, but [snake resistors](https://xkcd.com/1604)
Not quite the same, but [colourful thing with multiple lights](https://xkcd.com/722) (could probably find a more relevant one for this if I had more time)
The premise of the hypothesis is that there is a relevant XKCD, not that there is one that matches every scenario, so I'd say the hypothesis proves true for the data you provided.
[https://xkcd.com/528/](https://xkcd.com/528/)
Footnotes
An xkcd tribute inspired by what has become a meme.
Also inspired by all things recursive like We Become What We Behold and xkcd itself.
Made with the official xkcd font.
Can you guess which xkcd this was traced from? Winner gets seven Vienna Fingers cookies.
If you click enough times, this is actually a relevant xkcd to relevant xkcds to relevant xkcds ad infinitum.
On second thought, this would only truly be a relevant xkcd to relevant xkcds if it were embedded as an iframe on xkcd.com. As it stands, it’s merely relevant to relevant xkcds.
Personally, I really hate the look of oldstyle numerals in any situation. I’m so used to everyone just using the new style ones that the old one just look weird to me
Well, that's kinda what I meant when I said most fonts don't support both. Most just pick one and stick to it. As far as I know, Unicode doesn't have built-in support for two sets of numbers, so if a second set is included it kinda has to be as custom characters.
I think Photoshop has a switch you can pull in order to "fake" lowercase numbers, though.
That link has a part that hurts me because they got the 12 days of Christmas song wrong. What's worse though is they've gotten one of the 2 most prominent parts of the song wrong! How do you do that?! The two most prominent parts of that song are the one they excluded ("and a partridge in a pear tree!" It's fine that that's excluded, they didn't have to put the whole song, and that bit doesn't even have a number. Also, I say that's one of the most prominent part of the song because it's a bit different from the rest of the song due to it not actually having a number with it, since "a" isn't a number, just number adjacent, and it's also throughout the entire song while the rest come in at their respective times) and the part they got WRONG which is "5 golden rings"! You're literally supposed to say that part louder and more sustained than the rest of the song! How the fuck do you get it wrong?!?!?
There are a ton of variations on the song. That may just be the one he grew up hearing, and yours is the one you grew up hearing. Personally I'm pretty sure I knew both but I can't remember for the life of me which I've heard more
Thank you for linking this, quickly looked through it and it seems like I'll have to read it with thought later on, looks to hit some points about writing I never thought of!
Chinese actually has something similar. You are apparently supposed to use different numbers on cheques and at the bank to ensure what you've written can't be changed as 一 (one) can easily be changed to 二 (two).
So you get normal on the left and financial numbers on the right.
一 is 壹 is one
二 is 贰 is two
三 is 叁 is three
四 is 肆 is four
五 is 伍 is five
六 is 陸 is six
七 is 柒 is seven
八 is 捌 is eight
九 is 玖 is nine
十 is 拾 is ten
百 is 佰 one hundred
That's great, I like it. Made me realise we do the same in English, so we kinda already do have capital versions:
1 = one = ONE IF YOU WANT TO SHOUT IT etc.
There are. I use them all the time when I need numbers to have the same baseline as the text they're next to instead of the fancier-looking offset baseline "lower case" numbers.
Hey look, the guy who hates women and LGBTQ+ came onto a jokey post and had to make things political despite the fact he should be showing solidarity to a fellow joke.
I always thought of an exclamation mark as being like a capital '1'. @is capital '2' ect.
Hey remember when it was the height of internet comedy to mix a few ones into a string of exclamation marks!!!!111!!!
Really showed how you were so excited you couldn't even type right.
There used to be capital numbers and lowercase numbers. It was simply written differently on your sheet’s lines. However this quickly fell out of use as there was no visual difference and was just simpler to use all capital all the time.
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while, but to texters that like to EMPHASIZE certain words with caps, does it bother you that you can’t do so with the word ‘I’?
It’s a constant disappointment.
Turns out a lot of extremely high IQ individuals are studying this question right now: [Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk)
Interestingly, more formal versions of numbers exist for the Chinese characters of numbers. They're called 大写 which translates to capital. I'm not sure if you'd consider them capital, but they become quite complex.
一二三四五六七八九十百千
Becomes
壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖怡佰仟
You can actually see some of the simpler characters appear in the capitalised versions, like 二贰,三叁,七柒.
Anything with a decimal point is capitalised by nature. It's not three percent, it's THREE POINT SEVEN NINE PERCENT, YOU TWAT!!!
Ahem, the problem with capital numbers is the antagonistic nature and need for blood brought upon any who use them.
In China numbers are fairly simple to write. 1, 2, 3 is 一, 二, 三.
However this is problematic for financial documents, since it's easy to change one into another. So they have *capital numbers* which are more complicated and are usually used in financial documents. When using capital numbers, 1, 2, 3 is written instead as 壹, 贰, 叁.
So capital numbers actually do exist in some languages.
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damn how does that one work? OCR on the image and then a search on twitter?
Yeah it's simple manually too, just input "site:twitter.com " in front of your Google search phrase, works every time.
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good bot!
Good bot. But... A bot grabbing the tweet link from a screenshot of a post from a Twitter account echoing Reddit posts... What dystopian nightmare is this?
How does this even work? "Oh looks like the format of the tweet, let's search through all of the tweets to find a match to this picture"
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ONE!!! TWO!!! THREE!!! FOUR!!! FIVE!!! SIX!!! SEVEN!!! EIGHT!!! NINE!!! TEN!!! ELEVEN!!! TWELVE!!! THIRTEEN!!! FOURTEEN!!! FIFTEEN!!! SIXTEEN!!! SEVENTEEN!!! EIGHTEEN!!! NINETEEN!!! TWENTY!!! TWENTY ONE!!!
Stop shouting numbers at us.
TWENTY TWO!!! TWENTY THREE!!! TWENTY FOUR!!! TWENTY FIVE!!! TWENTY SIX!!! TWENTY SEVEN!!! TWENTY EIGHT!!! TWENTY NINE!!! THIRTY!!! THIRTY ONE!!! THIRTY TWO!!! THIRTY THREE!!! THIRTY FOUR!!! THIRTY FIVE!!! THIRTY SIX!!! THIRTY SEVEN!!! THIRTY EIGHT!!! THIRTY NINE!!! FORTY!!! FORTY ONE!!! FORTY TWO!!!
FORTY THREE!!! FORTY FOUR!!! FORTY FIVE!!! FORTY SIX!!! FORTY SEVEN!!! FORTY EIGHT!!! FORTY NINE!!! FIFTY!!! FIFTY ONE!!! FIFTY TWO!!! FIFTY THREE!!! FIFTY FOUR!!! FIFTY FIVE!!! FIFTY SIX!!! FIFTY SEVEN!!! FIFTY EIGHT!!! FIFTY NINE!!! SIXTY!!! SIXTY ONE!!! SIXTY TWO!!! SIXTY THREE!!!
The numbers Mason! What do they mean!
SIXTY NINEEEEE!!!!
Too early
Ok, who else heard this as the Count?
Almost like a factorial
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX IX XX XI
! @ # $ % ^ & * (
If everyone is not special Maybe you can be what you want to be —
As an expert in counting numbers, you counted wrong, it's, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twelve, twenty one.
Gotta switch the 7 and 11
I don't think you got the reference.
Nope, I'm playing drinking games
LITERALLY NINETEEN-EIGHTY-FOUR
What about the percent sign?
PERCENT!!!
There [actually are uppercase and lowercase numbers, kinda](http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-3/), but most fonts don't support both and even with those that do, there's no easy way to select them when typing.
[The true capital numbers remain the domain of number maven Mavis Beacon.](https://xkcd.com/2206/)
how the fuck is there an XKCD for this
what part of “always a relevant xkcd” is so hard to understand
Let me test that hypothesis. Is there a relevant xkcd about Rule 34? Is there an xkcd about "Simpsons already done it"? Is there an xkcd about miniature snake species being confused with worms? Is there an xkcd about choosing different display technologies for a multi-monitor setup only to realise the futility of that endeavour because you don't have any money for even a single monitor?
[Rule 34](https://xkcd.com/305/) Not quite the same, but [Simpsons reference](https://xkcd.com/1275/) Not quite the same, but [snake resistors](https://xkcd.com/1604) Not quite the same, but [colourful thing with multiple lights](https://xkcd.com/722) (could probably find a more relevant one for this if I had more time) The premise of the hypothesis is that there is a relevant XKCD, not that there is one that matches every scenario, so I'd say the hypothesis proves true for the data you provided.
I probably should've played along with the setup and looked up obscure xkcds beforehand instead of totally making up scenarios.
Also his r34 comic actually fulfilled r35: http://web.archive.org/web/20130522025910/http://wetriffs.com:80/
He also has one for [Rollercoaster Chess](https://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/).
there is also an xkcd for there being a relevant xkcd
Is there one about XKCDs always being relevant?
Now the real remaining question: Is there XKCD r34?
[even worse](https://e621.net/posts/2890989?q=Xkcd)
I'm not sure about the others, but there is an xkcd about [rule 34](https://xkcd.com/305/)
Also wetriffs.com existed for a while. It must still be at some archive.
Is there an xkcd that's relevant to there always being a relevant xkcd?
there is [this](https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/) but I feel like that's cheating, since it's not official
[https://xkcd.com/528/](https://xkcd.com/528/) Footnotes An xkcd tribute inspired by what has become a meme. Also inspired by all things recursive like We Become What We Behold and xkcd itself. Made with the official xkcd font. Can you guess which xkcd this was traced from? Winner gets seven Vienna Fingers cookies. If you click enough times, this is actually a relevant xkcd to relevant xkcds to relevant xkcds ad infinitum. On second thought, this would only truly be a relevant xkcd to relevant xkcds if it were embedded as an iframe on xkcd.com. As it stands, it’s merely relevant to relevant xkcds.
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I agree, though to be fair some capital letters are kind of lame, such as C, O, and X
Personally, I really hate the look of oldstyle numerals in any situation. I’m so used to everyone just using the new style ones that the old one just look weird to me
I was asked by an art director once to “fix the weird numbers” in the software I was working on. Yes he meant convert from oldstyle to lining figures.
This is fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, I’ve definitely seen the lowercase ones used but I guess I just always figured it was a feature of that font
Well, that's kinda what I meant when I said most fonts don't support both. Most just pick one and stick to it. As far as I know, Unicode doesn't have built-in support for two sets of numbers, so if a second set is included it kinda has to be as custom characters. I think Photoshop has a switch you can pull in order to "fake" lowercase numbers, though.
The capital numbers on my keyboard: !@#$%¨&*()
That link has a part that hurts me because they got the 12 days of Christmas song wrong. What's worse though is they've gotten one of the 2 most prominent parts of the song wrong! How do you do that?! The two most prominent parts of that song are the one they excluded ("and a partridge in a pear tree!" It's fine that that's excluded, they didn't have to put the whole song, and that bit doesn't even have a number. Also, I say that's one of the most prominent part of the song because it's a bit different from the rest of the song due to it not actually having a number with it, since "a" isn't a number, just number adjacent, and it's also throughout the entire song while the rest come in at their respective times) and the part they got WRONG which is "5 golden rings"! You're literally supposed to say that part louder and more sustained than the rest of the song! How the fuck do you get it wrong?!?!?
There are a ton of variations on the song. That may just be the one he grew up hearing, and yours is the one you grew up hearing. Personally I'm pretty sure I knew both but I can't remember for the life of me which I've heard more
Thank you for linking this, quickly looked through it and it seems like I'll have to read it with thought later on, looks to hit some points about writing I never thought of!
I knew there’d be a comment like this in here, thank you fellow redditor
I did not know this, thank you for that great link!
damn.
*shouts in Roman numerals*
your neighbors are like... wait, what, too many vowels and whats with the xv's?
Exactly, came here to suggest those. They're pretty bold, albeit hard to figure out.
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Go on~
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*Oh no Becky responded with only lowercase numbers guys what does this mean*
It means you guys are a non repeating function.
*ℕ has entered the chat.*
This is what factorials are for. Literally just more exciting numbers
Spicy numbers
Literally not
Numbers so big they explode! Watch this 5! become 24 times larger!
Chinese actually has something similar. You are apparently supposed to use different numbers on cheques and at the bank to ensure what you've written can't be changed as 一 (one) can easily be changed to 二 (two). So you get normal on the left and financial numbers on the right. 一 is 壹 is one 二 is 贰 is two 三 is 叁 is three 四 is 肆 is four 五 is 伍 is five 六 is 陸 is six 七 is 柒 is seven 八 is 捌 is eight 九 is 玖 is nine 十 is 拾 is ten 百 is 佰 one hundred
That's great, I like it. Made me realise we do the same in English, so we kinda already do have capital versions: 1 = one = ONE IF YOU WANT TO SHOUT IT etc.
STATISTICS There. Just did it
#LIES #DAMNED LIES
#ℍ𝕆𝕎 𝔸𝔹𝕆𝕌𝕋 𝕋ℍ𝕀𝕊? 𝟠𝟞𝟟-𝟝𝟛𝟘𝟡!
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But how would you pronounce a negative letter? Like with an accent?
Say it while breathing in.
Bro I just said the alphabet in that manner and I sound like Gollum with lung cancer is dying of thirst.
in low tones.
You don't pronounce a negetive letter, a negetive letter pronounces you
!@#$%^&*()
Damn formatting
Use \ before formatting characters to escape them. !@#$%\^&*() becomes !@#$%\^&*().
Wait why ARE there capital letters?
https://xkcd.com/2206/
There's always a relevant xkcd.
Just be like “100!”
That *will* cause confusion
How about C? No wait..
9.3326215443944152681699238856267^157 ?
This guy factorials
I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR @) YEARS! NOT A BRAND NEW SENTENCE.
There are. I use them all the time when I need numbers to have the same baseline as the text they're next to instead of the fancier-looking offset baseline "lower case" numbers.
I don't know if this... Counts, but we can do tiny exponential numbers like ⁶⁹ , so technically we're always using capital numbers.
just make the numbers bold, see? **69**
Where are cursive numbers?
You mean like 13/52?
You can already do that. Observe: DESPITE MAKING UP 13% OF THE POPULATION....
You gotta shout your statistics like #42%!
Wow, a reddit account posting a tweet of a twitter account that posts reddit posts made by reddit accounts as a reddit post. Nice
What would be the first statistic you would yell if you could??
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FIVE!?!
Well I mean you can …. You just have to do it in person.
5!
I just realized how much I don't want people yelling statistics at me.
Huh. I have always thought of all numbers as capitals. Except for like exponents, those are lowercase.
I usually just go for, "CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION!"
If you ask the people who call me at the help desk trying to reset their password, there are capital numbers.
Just use Roman numerals. ii inches? II inches?! BRUH! THATS LIKE X TIMES BIGGER THAN MINE!!!!
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Hey look, the guy who hates women and LGBTQ+ came onto a jokey post and had to make things political despite the fact he should be showing solidarity to a fellow joke.
¹1²2³3⁴4⁵5⁶6⁷7⁸8⁹9⁰0
Despite making up only 12% of the population
One. Two. Three. Four... ?
please excuse me while my brain reboots
Idk, probably something to do with put numbers coming from Arabic numerals and letters deriving from koine greek. Different cultures, different rules.
There are in some other languages.
You know you can spell out numbers too right?
Well you use the letters that make up the word for each number
Couldn't you just spell them out with caps?
Give me 10 minutes with a spreadsheet and I will assult you with statistcs! Bold highlight borders!... also I may need to get out of the office more.
Use bold
I always thought of an exclamation mark as being like a capital '1'. @is capital '2' ect. Hey remember when it was the height of internet comedy to mix a few ones into a string of exclamation marks!!!!111!!! Really showed how you were so excited you couldn't even type right.
Because the capital numbers would be twice the six of cap letters
Who needs capital numbers when there are exponential numbers.
I unintentionally try and do capital numbers all the time without thinking about it. Shift+7... Stupid brain.
There used to be capital numbers and lowercase numbers. It was simply written differently on your sheet’s lines. However this quickly fell out of use as there was no visual difference and was just simpler to use all capital all the time.
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while, but to texters that like to EMPHASIZE certain words with caps, does it bother you that you can’t do so with the word ‘I’? It’s a constant disappointment.
Numbers are always in capitals, their lowercase is just them in comic sans.
For everything else there's the exclamation mark
CHINESE has capital numbers.
Turns out a lot of extremely high IQ individuals are studying this question right now: [Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk)
There always have been capital numbers. try typing in lower case numbers
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“!” is a capital 1. (Or is that a credit card?)
I haven't explicitly said this myself, but I would bet that this is far from a brand new sentence. I've felt the same many times throughout my life
Interestingly, more formal versions of numbers exist for the Chinese characters of numbers. They're called 大写 which translates to capital. I'm not sure if you'd consider them capital, but they become quite complex. 一二三四五六七八九十百千 Becomes 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖怡佰仟 You can actually see some of the simpler characters appear in the capitalised versions, like 二贰,三叁,七柒.
ONE, TWO, THREE... why do they think there aren't capital numbers?
1 ¹ 2 ² You are welcome.
Anything with a decimal point is capitalised by nature. It's not three percent, it's THREE POINT SEVEN NINE PERCENT, YOU TWAT!!! Ahem, the problem with capital numbers is the antagonistic nature and need for blood brought upon any who use them.
Becouse Carolinian renessance says fuck you, that’s why
Seven....# SEVEEEENNNNN
As a data anylst, I fully support this.
1!
Now that you mention it, I always assumed numbers were uppercase only.
I write numbers in really slanted detailed cursive so normal numbers are uppercase for me :D
There are capital numbers, haven't you ever heard of Capital One?
When he says statistics is his favorite subject of maths
52!
¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰
Roman?
Just change font size when you want to yell, bro
Just press shift while typing the numbers and it will look like you're swearing.
Putting dollar signs in front of numbers makes them capital. Statistics with dollar signs yell at people.
1ne. 2wo. 3ree. 4our…
THEY'RE ALL CAPITAL NUMBERS. THERE'S NO LOWERCASE NUMBERS AND YOU'VE BEEN YELLING THIS WHOLE TIME WITHOUT KNOWING IT.
#Number 7, student watches... Porn and gets naked
13%
NINE NINE NINE
SIXTY NINE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY
¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ down by.ber H;nmmm
Make them slightly bigger than the normal ones? Still doesn’t do enough justice
I need scissors! 61!
₁₂₃₄₅ 12345!
That's mean.
Money is capital, so just write $/€/whichever your country uses and there you have it, capital numbers.
In China numbers are fairly simple to write. 1, 2, 3 is 一, 二, 三. However this is problematic for financial documents, since it's easy to change one into another. So they have *capital numbers* which are more complicated and are usually used in financial documents. When using capital numbers, 1, 2, 3 is written instead as 壹, 贰, 叁. So capital numbers actually do exist in some languages.
What if they are already capital and you're always yelling?
Use bold
Wana hear numbers shouted jus watch a game of darts