# Mayan Numerals in Julia - MayanNumerals.jl
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Created:** [November 1, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140 "2024-11-01T15:03:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@inokawazu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/inokawazu)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/1 "2024-11-01T15:03:16Z")
I was watched this [yt video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-C7NkqpME). Seemed in interesting so I thought I would make a package for using Mayan numerals since Julia has Unicode support and what not. Here is [the package (MayanNumerals.jl)](https://github.com/inokawazu/MayanNumerals.jl).
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### Author:  [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/2 "2024-11-01T16:28:55Z")
The github readme doesnโt do your work justice ๐
```julia
julia> using MayanNumerals
julia> Mayan(0)
๐
julia> Mayan(1)
๐ก
julia> Mayan(3)
๐ฃ
julia> Mayan(5)
๐ฅ
julia> Mayan(8)
๐จ
julia> Mayan(14)
๐ฎ
julia> Mayan(20)
๐ก๐
julia> Mayan(100)
๐ฅ๐
julia> Mayan(369)
๐ก๐ ๐ฉ
julia> Mayan(359)
๐ฑ๐ณ
julia> Mayan(360)
๐ก๐ ๐
julia> Mayan(420)
๐ก๐ฃ๐
julia> Mayan(1024)
๐ข๐ฏ๐ค
```
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### Author:  [@inokawazu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/inokawazu)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/3 "2024-11-01T21:21:27Z")
I didnโt even think of people not having the font installed. Oops! I wonder if there is a way to check if the user has the right font to render the glyphs (not much help in the readme though).
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### Author:  [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/4 "2024-11-01T21:37:26Z")
How do you do numbers less than one?
What is Pi in Mayan number system???
What about negative and imaginary numbers?
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### Author:  [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/5 "2024-11-01T21:40:41Z")
You donโt need fonts, just use an array of Ints
Are you going to use Big Mayan Indians or Small Mayan Indians for your array?
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### Author:  [@mcabbott](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcabbott)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/6 "2024-11-01T23:00:28Z")
You might like my [AncientNumbers.jl](https://github.com/mcabbott/AncientNumbers.jl), which supports calculations like `XV + ๐ - ไท == ๐๐๐`โฆ but no Mayan. (Maybe becaue `๐ ` doesnโt parse as in Julia?)
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### Author:  [@inokawazu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/inokawazu)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/7 "2024-11-02T01:35:13Z")
I did absolutely consider it to have negative and decimal. I decided against it because it would have been a bit anachronistic. Technically, the numeral system is base 20 where on the 3rd (1st being the ones place) base is different.
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### Author:  [@inokawazu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/inokawazu)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/8 "2024-11-02T01:36:13Z")
I did consider using an array of Ints, but decided to make the Mayan number a think wrapper around an Int type since it makes it easier to implement arithmetic.
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### Author:  [@inokawazu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/inokawazu)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/9 "2024-11-02T01:39:02Z")
Wow great package! Iโll have to check it out! The interesting about the Mayan Unicode codepoints is that Julia does recognize them as numerals since `isnumeric('๐ ') == true`.
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### Author:  [@caleb-allen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/caleb-allen)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mayan-numerals-in-julia-mayannumerals-jl/122140/10 "2024-11-04T12:07:16Z")
Iโve recently been dealing with a shady merchant who sent me a bad delivery, finally I can calculate the refund Iโm owed for the adjusted value of this pile of low-grade copper (not to mention the terrible customer service my employee had to deal with)