heximal?

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heximal?
I decided to experiment with number bases other than ten for the conlangs in my science fantasy series and… honestly? Glad I did, cause bases six and twelve are both genuinely being nicer to my poor, dyscalculic brain (it ain't perfect, but bruh, I'll take what I can get)… 😭❤️🩹
i like that the seximal holocene era is closer to the actual age of the holocene than the decimal holocene era.
also, it just turned nif 7k7 HE!
context:
dec 2023 = sex 13211 = nif 1k7 CE
dec 12023 ≈ sex 113211 = nif 7k7 HE
An interesting blog post about counting systems on the Morph blog. Excerpt:
In order to feed his family for the year, and prove himself a worthy man, a man living in southern New Guinea is expected to grow 1296 yams (dioscorea sp.) each season. In Ngkolmpu, a language spoken by around 200 people who live in this region in a single village 15kms within the Indonesian side of the border between West Papua and Papua New Guinea, there is a single word for this number ntamnao.
To speakers of English, this seems like an arbitrarily specific number; yet to Ngkolmpu speakers it’s perfectly natural. Ngkolmpu, along with most of its related languages, has what is known as a senary numeral system also known as a base-six system. In English, we use a decimal system which is based on recursions of ten units while senary systems are based around recursions of six. In Ngkolmpu, the words for one to six are naempr, yempoka, yuow, eser, tampui and traowow. Seven is naempr traowo naempr or ‘one six and one;’ thirteen is yempoka traowo naempr or ‘two six and one.’ You should be starting to see the pattern now. But what happens when you get to six groups of six, i.e. 62 or 36? Well there is a specific word for that ptae. In fact, in Ngkolmpu there are words for 62, 63, 64 and 65. That’s all the way up to 7776! Related language Komnzo even has a word wi which is used for 66 or 46,656! [...]
The significance of counting yams in these cultures has been hypothesised as the motivation for the development this counting system; something we don’t really see anywhere else in the world. The next question is why base six and not some other number? Well, the main yams consumed in this region are teardrop shaped with a round end and a narrow end. These when placed into small piles naturally fall into neat piles of 6.
Read the whole thing.
To remove future ambiguity, ⸳\˙ is pernif
Don't you like it? 😁 I spent about an hour messing with Unicode composition before I got it to that.
It's better to write too.
@catherine-clover I beat my first pemon, got us to Top 0.5%
Then that was so close to Top 0.1 ⸳\˙ , so I did a little more,
and I did it!
Top point-one pernif!
You're welcome 💜
130042-04-22
As I watch my remaining time for the day ticking down, for this switch ticking down, on my custom time system, I reflect on the symmetry
She put on my oldest dress to switch in
I'm putting on her newest dress to switch out
She wanted to get out
I don't want to go
She's been intermittently puppeting me all day
Is it time then?
nex bex trex quex pex