Re: A Simplified Number System

From: Andrew Nowicki (andrew_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:40:05 +0200

Ebenezer T. Squint wrote:

> While picking up the often-neglected work on my conlangs, I was
> considering the problem of devising a new and easily learned number
> system. Maybe even a system that would or could be hexadecimal, making
> it easy to use in computer science.
>
> The binary digits of hexadecimal seemed a natural place to start. I
> began to consider different ways to write four binary digits quickly and
> recognizably as a single character. This is what I came up with.

Binary system has nothing in common with the hexadecimal system.
Binary system has two digits, while hexadecimal system has 16 digits.
Binary system is very simple, but its numbers are too long for humans.
Hexadecimal system has slightly shorter numbers than decimal system,
but its multiplication table is very complex. The best simplified number
system is octal system, which uses 8 digits.
 
> Imagine a vertical line drawn freehand, with four loops to the side.
> When a loop is to the left of the line, it represents a binary 1. When a
> loop goes to the right, it is a binary 0. In my system, the high bit is
> at the top and the low bit is at the bottom.
>
> I see two problems with my system. First, the figures look somewhat
> similar and hard to distinguish until you get accustomed to them.
> Second, the vertical symmetry makes it difficult to tell if you're
> looking at a digit upside down. I suppose you could lengthen the top
> stem, or curl the bottom stem so that both stems point to the top of the
> digit.

If you ignore binary 0 you are describing octal glyphs of Ygyde conlang.
Ygyde has two number systems, decimal and octal.
More info: http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/ygyde/ygyde.htm

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