Numeral System
Meoctal is the main numeral system for Meority in both spoken and written language, as the Eight is Her holy number, is Her holy symbol, representing Joy and Beauty, Integrity and Continuity. Though some other numeral system were tried to be introduced, but they are barely used outside of a task they were designed for.
For example there was a so called “Decimal” system – last an only known users were long extinct tribe. Two main differences is: “ten” was the base of this system, which is greater than eight by two digits (so an additional digit symbols was created) and you write digit Zero with other digits to represent Decimal radix (instead of giving radix its own symbol like we have in Meoctal, where Zero is nothing, and its symbol represents nothing, so it is used nowhere else).
Here are examples of differences in writing Decimal and Meoctal radices and numbers close to them:
10 = 8
11 = 11
12 = 12
...
20 = 18
30 = 28
40 = 38
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100 = 78
101 = 81
102 = 82
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110 = 88
111 = 111
112 = 112
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120 = 118
130 = 128
140 = 138
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150 = 148
151 = 151
152 = 152
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200 = 178
201 = 181
202 = 182
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210 = 188
211 = 211
212 = 212
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1000 = 778
1001 = 781
1002 = 782
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1010 = 788
1011 = 811
1012 = 812
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1110 = 888
1111 = 1111
1112 = 1112
A major reason why Decimal system certainly never would survived is how rooted Meoctal is in our language. When we say Century or a Meter – both would mean 64 in Decimal instead of a "100", while a Millennium or a Kilometer would mean 512 instead of a "1000", as a result complicating comprehensions and calculations of common information for very few users of Decimal system.
Comments (6)
110=88, but 111=111 and 112=112... and so on... Ouch! Me brain hurt 🥴
So, it's kinda Octal system, but with 8 and no 0
oh neat well I hope to see more of the ardem anatomy soon
so it skips 9 and 10 so it can end on number that looks like a butt?
It is a butt, a pair of breasts, a foot sole, a pair of ab muscles...
It is an attempt to write outside world explanation in Lore. Don't worry to bother with this one too much: I always use Decimal numbers when write (to not bother myself and you alike with calculation)... but when I use specific numeral words, like already mentioned Century, I would mean specifically Meoctal century of 64 years... though that doesn't matter when I use ambiguous plural - in that case it is for a narrative exposition (like "...after many centuries they are still thicc...")