I once made a 5-based writing system, and tried to calculate simple and some more advanced Formulars with it, and translated different decimal numbers into that "quintemal" system, it was an absolute mindf*ck :')
• But don't make the mistake of thinking binary having to be grouped by 8. That is only when you're working with bytes. I mention this since you added that leading zero. • There are other letter based systems, such as the Cyrillic system where АВГДЕЅЗИѲ stand for values 1 through 9, ІКЛМНѮОПЧ stand for the 10s of values 10 through 90, and finally РСТУФХѰѠЦ stands for the 100s of values 100 through 900. You then put ҂ in front of to multiply by 1000. 5312 is therefore ҂ЕТІВ. • Don't forget that decimals work on any base. 0.1 in base 10 is 1/10, and in base 12 it's 1/12, and in base 2 (binary) it's 1/2 (half). So 0.25 in base 10 is 0.01 in binary. The "decimal" in decimal point might be misleading, but not all languages calls it as such.
I'm currently making a Conlang that has base 14. I thought it would be a good idea to have a number system based on the amounts of segments in the digits on your hand. Meaning in my conlang, you can count to 14 on one hand!
My conlang has a base 5 system. It's not mathematically superior, but it makes a lot of sense because it evolved from the number of digits in a human hand. But I'm kind of still debating if I want to go full base 5, or 5 and 20 because systems other than 10 and 20 are so rare irl. The writing system evolved from tally marks, and is similar to the Roman numerals. Some numbers are similar to the letters in the language, for example number 25 (or possibly 20) looks like the letter n because word in the language is 'nailin'. Representing large numbers is complicated, but Romans did well with their system for centuries too, and I like going for realism over efficiency :D
Also, I think your Greek system is wrong, or maybe there are different Greek systems. What we learned on our Classical Greek classes I think, was a system that started with α = 1. That looks like a system that has been inspired by the roman numerals?
I once made a 5-based writing system, and tried to calculate simple and some more advanced Formulars with it, and translated different decimal numbers into that "quintemal" system, it was an absolute mindf*ck :')
I use a base 12 system for my conlang, where 36 (3 × 12), 72 (6 × 12), 144 (12 × 12), 432 (3 × 12 × 12), 864 (6 × 12 × 12) and 1728 (12 × 12 × 12) get their own symbols. For example:
2020: 1728 + 2 × 144 + 4
1923: 1728 + 144 + 36 + 12 + 3
100: 72 + 2 × 12 + 4
Hello again, i guess.
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• But don't make the mistake of thinking binary having to be grouped by 8. That is only when you're working with bytes. I mention this since you added that leading zero.
• There are other letter based systems, such as the Cyrillic system where АВГДЕЅЗИѲ stand for values 1 through 9, ІКЛМНѮОПЧ stand for the 10s of values 10 through 90, and finally РСТУФХѰѠЦ stands for the 100s of values 100 through 900. You then put ҂ in front of to multiply by 1000. 5312 is therefore ҂ЕТІВ.
• Don't forget that decimals work on any base. 0.1 in base 10 is 1/10, and in base 12 it's 1/12, and in base 2 (binary) it's 1/2 (half). So 0.25 in base 10 is 0.01 in binary. The "decimal" in decimal point might be misleading, but not all languages calls it as such.
I use base 10, you'll never guess which base 10 I'm talking about
The awaited fourth episode! Somebody forgot to plugin their discord xD
Shhh dunno what you're on about.. xD
base 6 is the best though.
I'm currently making a Conlang that has base 14. I thought it would be a good idea to have a number system based on the amounts of segments in the digits on your hand. Meaning in my conlang, you can count to 14 on one hand!
Well this aged poorly. I've already abandoned that conlang lol
Another good video from our beloved Drach, keep going...
Thank you! I have plans to run this series through until a language is constructed so I'm not stopping any time soon!
I love your channel
Thank you so much!
@@Dracheneks no, thank you, you are amazing and make amazing content and it’s really sad people like you don’t get enough recognition..
@@Dracheneks I’m gonna join your discord
You're underrated. Your videos are awesome!
Thank you very much! It means a lot!
My conlang has a base 5 system. It's not mathematically superior, but it makes a lot of sense because it evolved from the number of digits in a human hand. But I'm kind of still debating if I want to go full base 5, or 5 and 20 because systems other than 10 and 20 are so rare irl.
The writing system evolved from tally marks, and is similar to the Roman numerals. Some numbers are similar to the letters in the language, for example number 25 (or possibly 20) looks like the letter n because word in the language is 'nailin'. Representing large numbers is complicated, but Romans did well with their system for centuries too, and I like going for realism over efficiency :D
Also, I think your Greek system is wrong, or maybe there are different Greek systems. What we learned on our Classical Greek classes I think, was a system that started with α = 1. That looks like a system that has been inspired by the roman numerals?
And now I see you have a newer video where you corrected that already!
base 6 though....
8:00 Sorry, that's not correct lol. Yeah, blame google.
7:00
base 8 is superior
I agree