Suzhou/Huama Numerals

I was browsing through my accessible Wikipedia clone when I found these numerals used in markets. See

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Chinese_numerals

most of the way down, search for "Suzhou". They look useful or denoting intervals in a 10 note scale, given that the characters for the 10 heavenly stems are more complicated. There's also a nice browser Unicode test, which my Mozilla fails. Anyway, a string of 11 characters would be something like

〇一二三〤〥〦〧〨〩十

It's only the zero that could be confused with the Arabic numerals currently used for all kinds of things in music. I don't know if 一 or 十 should be the first note of the scale, which I currently call 0.

I still like the heavenly stems, though. They tie in with the 24 directions for quartertones and the earthly branches for 12 notes. I gave this link before but perhaps nobody noticed how well it ties together:

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Earthly_Branches

Graham

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, Graham Breed <gbreed@...> wrote:
>
> I was browsing through my accessible Wikipedia clone when I found these
> numerals used in markets. See
>
> http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Chinese_numerals

I don't think it will work unless people have set themselves up to
support Chinese characters.