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The Septaria Numbers

Author: James M. Cargal


Septaria

In Septaria, there are only seven numbers, six of which are classified as digits. The numbers 1, 2, and 3 correspond to the digits of the left hand and the numbers 4, 5, and 6 correspond to the digits of the right hand. The divine or sacred number, 7, often referred to as “the Thumb,” corresponds to the thumb. (People are categorized as left-handed or right-handed depending on which hand they have their thumb.) Fortunately, the left-right wars are a thing of the past and a left-handed person and a right-handed person can marry. Children in Septaria know the arithmetic of Septaria as soon as they can blikpert or even before they open their spiggleworrs. Septaria addition and multiplication are as in Table 1.

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The UMAP Journal 46.1
6 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Number Theory

Application Areas:

None

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