Useless piece of WC trivia - number 54865

Wedge009

Wedge009

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Just noticed the guns pictured in the WCIV 'manual' look like they're the same ones from Privateer. Since when does Confed and the UBW use civilian grade weapons? :)
 
Maybe the military budget was cut down after the cat war, and confed had to steal it's weapons from privateers...:)
 
Well, there's only so many things a Plasma Cannon can look like. :) Still, check out this slightly related action:

wc1guns.jpg
 
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Ah. :)
Hey, would make sense, since the first two signs are the same as for the Nr.1 which I assume is a Laser. Though my Japanese is at least as rusty as yours. ;)
 
I've always thought it odd that languages totally unrelated to English, use English digits in their writing. Why didn't they replace the 1-9 with the Japanese equivalents?
 
IIRC, Japanese doesn't really have numewral digits, and besides it looks cool for them if they know a little English.
 
Been learning about text processing using computers, which is much harder in some languages than other. Languages are generally supposed to composed of three types of symbols: logographic, syllabic and alphabetic. Japaneses has a fairly even mix of all three, with many logographic symbols the same as in Chinese - it's the alpha(numeric) symbols which are used in Japanese that we recognise.

Interestingly, Chinese still has its own symbols for numbers even though Arabic numerals tend to be used these days. Possibly the Japanese used these symbols before as well?

What a topic drift. :)
 
Japanese did traditionally use the Chinese logographic symbols for numbers (trust me, I live in Tokyo). However, the drawback of these symbols is that they have no place value. For example, in the number 394, the 3 stands for 3 hundreds, the 9 for 9 tens, and the 4 for 4 ones. However, using the Chinese numerals, one would have to write the symbol for 3, then the symbol for hundreds, then the symbol for 9, then the symbol for tens, then the symbol for 4. The lack of being able to write numbers with the powers of ten being self-evident makes it much more difficult to perform operations like multiplication and division. Just try using Roman numerals for a multiplication problem and you'll see what I mean. What is XXXVII times LXIV? No cheating by converting it to Arabic numerals now!
 
Well, it's good that you know. Unfortunately, my parent's multi-lingual skills did not pass on to me, so I'm only fluent in English...
 
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