#numerals

[stone-cold-groove]

Systron-Donner Corporation annual report to shareholders - 1977.

[iindex]

[yattaiseternal]

Yatta!! Are you okay!! What happened!!! ˙◠˙

I am well! The doctor guy I gave your blood turned out to be kinda evil, though...I guess unethical doctors are normal for Hell.

And he's got someone else's blood! He's got more blood stored than a vampire!

[saturndoesabunchoshit]

i tried making lowercase numbers by sorta trying to imitate how lowercase LETTERS were made (sorta.... downgrading them and being more lazy as you write them)

yes the colors are the minesweeper colors.

no theyre not the bfdi colors.

no these are not meant for actual use, these were made for fun

no i dont expect anyone to ask questions that require these answers

and no 1+1 does not equal 2. /j

[ourladyofomega]

🖌️Mike Strouth, Things To Do While Getting Well, 1971

[whirligig-girl]

The most common numeral systems used to write Octal and Seximal on Gymnome are derived from a binary-octal numeral system introduced sometime in the early 1700s AD (600 or so years in the past), itself a reform of a non-positional numeral system that has much earlier and more obscure origin.

The proto-octal system assigned numerals to 0, 1, 2, and 4, and built digits up to seven using ligatures of those glyphs. From then on it was a pretty much normal (by our standards) positional octal numeral system.

Of course, many of these characters were somewhat tedious to draw, so inevitably the characters evolved more efficient shapes over time.

The proto-octal numeral system evolved into modern octal, but its numerals were also taken up by seximal users, who evolved their way of writing the numerals in a different direction.

The modern Octal and Seximal numeral systems began to emerge around the 1990s AD.

(they write left to right because if they don't i get too confused.)

[yuk-tepat]

Tepatic Numerals

Tepat also has a system for writing numbers. It uses a system of vertical and horizontal bars, similar in concept to tally marks for keeping track of things in English.

One is represented by a vertical bar. Two is two vertical bars, three is three vertical bars.

After three though, each group of three is turned into a horizontal stroke. Then additional ones are placed on top. Hence, four is represented by a vertical stroke on top of a horizontal stroke. Five places two strokes on top of the horizontal bar. Six has three vertical strokes.

Then at seven, six is converted to two horizontal strokes and another vertical stroke placed on top.

Three groups of three become three horizontal strokes. This continues until we get to twelve.

Twelve is written with one vertical stroke, and then a zero, because this is base twelve. The zero is a loop that looks like a little ribbon - the same as the negative operator stroke.