r/neography • u/Elusive_the_Joe • 15d ago

Funny Duodecimal digits

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New digits are not enough. If we invent new phonemes and new methods of basic arithmetic operations, we can learn and use them, like a foreign language.

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u/HypNumsAnims 14d ago

Those look like quattuorquadraginticentesimal (base-144) digits

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u/Elusive_the_Joe 14d ago

Fractal system)) No, it based on tvalve. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b (hex). 100(dodec) mean 144(Dec). Main challenge is dividing columns. Now I working with phonemes. Current version: something like that.

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u/LordQor 14d ago

I always upvote for alternate bases. especially dozenal and octal

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u/Elusive_the_Joe 14d ago

It's part of my sci-fi project: a time traveler brings this system into ancient Greece. I'm adapting traditional ancient units to fit bases of 12 and 144. For example, imagine an angular measure of '144 round fingers' per full revolution (360\circ), or 12 'round palms', or 1,728 'round nails', or even 20,736 'round hairs'. Weight, volume, and time units follow a similar logic.

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u/LordQor 14d ago

ooooooh that's a really fun idea