Numeral System (Patreon)

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 created 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

20 = 18

30 = 28

…

40 = 38

41 = 41

42 = 42

...

100 = 78

101 = 81

102 = 82

...

110 = 88

111 = 111

112 = 112

...

120 = 118

130 = 128

140 = 138

...

150 = 148

151 = 151

152 = 152

...

200 = 178

201 = 181

202 = 182

…

210 = 188

211 = 211

212 = 212

...

1000 = 778

1001 = 781

1002 = 782

...

1010 = 788

1011 = 811

1012 = 812

...

1100 = 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. If it was backwards then Decimal Century/Meter would count as 144 years in Meoctal, and a Millennium/Kilometer would be 1750 years.