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Jarrod Cruz

Pan-Dayirese Usage of Pentadecimal Numeral System

Sep 22, 2022
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"...predominantly, Dayir's societies conducts business and lifestyle using a pentadecimal numeral system. Written in similarly ubiquitous Atiwana numerals, the pentadecimal system has a role parallel to Western society's Hindu-Arabic decimal numeral system. While neither system obviously counts like the other, both systems do at least originate from finger-counting. Earthly decimal societies may have simply converged upon the man's ten corporeal fingers. However, ████ legendarily suggested that ancient Dayirese societies concluded further along their belief in three-handed divinity. Though "flawed" for having simply two hands, so ████ says, ancient Dayirese humans anticipated a greater connection to divine "perfectitude" for managing to count up to fifteen as if humans had three hands. 

Produced henceforth were the pan-Dayirese pentadecimal system and associated gestures, as depicted in Figure 1. As shown, not only does counting conflate itself with Dayirese conceptions of holy trialis…

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