Changing/expanding TPNN numerals
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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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:
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