I'm not wholly sure, but I believe they reduced significantly over time. The early ones had a whole bunch of extra symbols and ligatured letters (think ae, and a bunch of others that gradually went out of fashion). This was the figure I found for the late fifteenth / early sixteenth century ones. Might also have been a fonts thing?
And this may also be why Japan led in hardware from about 1960-1990 but fell behind once software became more important than hardware. English fit into Ascii - only needing 7bits - and its characters could be displayed easier on green screen terminals.
Japanese needs a 16-bit character set for its script, and is harder to display. So Japan, unless it had switched to English, was stuck with separate consumer devices for everything and fell behind when music players were folded into phones.
If this Language Theory is true we won't see Chinese displacing English as the global lingual franca. Because Chinese is tonal it's harder to speak. The leaders of the USA, GB and India all pronounce English differently yet can understand each other. Chinese doesn't as a language allow for different accents. Therefore it will never be as widely used and spoken as English.
why 150 compartments? ~30 letters x2 = 60, 10 digits, a dozen punctuation...
I'm not wholly sure, but I believe they reduced significantly over time. The early ones had a whole bunch of extra symbols and ligatured letters (think ae, and a bunch of others that gradually went out of fashion). This was the figure I found for the late fifteenth / early sixteenth century ones. Might also have been a fonts thing?
i've read to carve 1 punch it took about a day
And this may also be why Japan led in hardware from about 1960-1990 but fell behind once software became more important than hardware. English fit into Ascii - only needing 7bits - and its characters could be displayed easier on green screen terminals.
Japanese needs a 16-bit character set for its script, and is harder to display. So Japan, unless it had switched to English, was stuck with separate consumer devices for everything and fell behind when music players were folded into phones.
If this Language Theory is true we won't see Chinese displacing English as the global lingual franca. Because Chinese is tonal it's harder to speak. The leaders of the USA, GB and India all pronounce English differently yet can understand each other. Chinese doesn't as a language allow for different accents. Therefore it will never be as widely used and spoken as English.