--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

> On Sunday 19 January 2003 07:24, Michael Everson wrote:
> >I would imagine that the use Mayan numbers on house decorations
> would be a little similar to the occasional use of Ogham in public
> in Ireland. [...]
>
> It should have occurred to me sooner, but your image finally made

me

> realize that the coding scheme of Ogham is simple, thus requiring
> more marks than a different, more-sophisticated system. However,
> simpler codings are more accessible to future scholars.

And, perhaps EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) bar-code reading
devices) :).

Richard Comaish