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Is anyone familiar with this numbering system? It was invented in the 13th century by Cistercian monks.
Which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol.

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Mohan

@Acro81 that's super interesting!

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Alexander Cobleigh

@mvp @Acro81 reminiscent of @neauoire's needles project wiki.xxiivv.com/site/needles.h

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Acro

@cblgh @mvp @neauoire Interesting, did not know that.

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Devine Lu Linvega

@cblgh @mvp @Acro81 oh wow that's very cool! It scales a lot better than my needle numbers.

"Now we'll simply draw the needle number 34"

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Acro

I thought so too, it's genius!

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Devin Horsman

@Acro81 this is great for house numbers. I think I’ll adopt...

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deerbard_photo

@Acro81 Very interesting. Thx!

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