http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Do they use the septenary system?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tau_Lexicon


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The official Tau font contains numbers 0 to 7.

You don't need the number 8 because it is represented as 10. Exactly the same as how there is no symbol for the number ten in Arabic numerals.

Japanese/Chinese and Roman numerals do include symbols for 10 and some higher numbers.

The symbols used for numbers don't matter, what matters is if your notation is positional, meaning that you make any larger number out of your basic 8 symbols in octal or 10 in decimal.

Calculations are greatly simplified.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/364410/2726252.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/364410/2726252.page GMT

a base 8 system using Arabic symbols would look like this.

number zero=0

number one=1

number two=2

number three=3

number four=4

number five=5

number six=6

number seven=7

number eight=10

number nine=11

in this case, what we call the tens column is the T'aus eights column. our hundreds column would be the T'au 64s column(if i got that right)


replace Arabic symbols with T'au symbols and you have their system down.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/364410/2726661.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/364410/2726661.page GMT


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