Changing/expanding TPNN numerals

[fayanora]

One area of TPNN I'd neglected was numbers. I had only 1 through 10 listed on the web page, and still do. (Not sure when I'll update the TPNN dictionary page.) But I was expanding the TPNN numerals last night, since I wanted to come up with some TPNN terms for measures of distance in space. While doing so, I got frustrated with the word for ten,

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[fayanora]

So it works the same way as the system we use...

Two of the three sentient species on the planet have the same number of limbs and digits as we do. The third may have fewer toes, but has the same number of fingers. It seemed easiest, especially since I'm still a bit confused about other bases.

Neutral choice: big numbers first ("a hundred and four" instead of "four and a hundred"). Big first is easy for quick comparison of numbers, small first makes doing math easier.

I could do both. Traipah already does a lot of different kinds of writing styles, why not extend that to numbers? I think I need a more math-friendly number symbol system than the one I have in my file. Cuz here's the formal version:

[fayanora]

Why base six?

[fayanora]

Over the weekend, I managed somehow to figure out base six, but I like this confirmation. I think I'm gonna use base six for the Traipahni numbers, with the backwards notation (01 instead of 10).

Here are the new numerals:

[fayanora]

At first, I wanted something else for zero, but I didn't want a complicated thing like the Mayan conch shell. My first idea was a black circle, for a hole, but that would take time in handwriting to fill in. So I figured that a circle was just logical and easiest.

I originally had an upside down triangle (point down) for three, but Brooke pointed out that would be very easy to change in accounting books, so I reversed it. Maybe that will be part of the conhistory. :-)

Also originally had a square for 4, but I find squares hard to do properly in handwriting, so I changed it to a cross.

And when I was first making this symbol set, I had the understanding of bases wrong, and had a 6, which was an X with a line down the middle, like this: