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]

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:


I found that a lot easier to write than any kind of hexagram.