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Originally Posted by BenBullock
There is a publisher which makes a sumo wrestling calendar with all the days and months written using kanji numerals, including things like 廿.
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I think that's more for aesthetic reasons than for "information" reasons. We (Japanese) have no touble reading numbers between 1 and 12 in kanji, but we have great trouble reading an entire phone number in kanji. I mean we could read it but would have a hard time memorizing it when making a call.
Just want the Japanese learners to know that we don't use kanji numerals nearly as often as they seem to think we do. They are never used in arithmetic or math in schools, either.