Number Systems
Here’s a thing for your world building: What do people count to?
If you’re mad, do you count down from ten?
When you’re throwing rock-paper-scissors, do you count to three, then shoot? Or do you shoot on three?
When you think about the game, are you counting zero, fifteen, thirty, forty?
What do you get when you add one to ten fifty nine?
The greatest trick numbers ever pulled was convincing you that they and the ways we talk about them are simple. We know for a fact that math, while following universal rules, is not a universally described practice, and that the way you talk about numbers directly relates to how well you can treat or manipulate those numbers. I am now going to present examples to show I looked things up.
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