BaseLibre Numerical System - Part 0

For the last few years, I have been fascinated with a tool for calculation, called "abacus". This led me to the creation of the BaseLibre numerical system.

After much experiment, and after many drafts, I am now settling with the Chinese Abacus. This abacus type is probably the most ancient today, and I now see why this, in my opinion, is the original abacus (that the East part of the World has given with to us).

This BaseLibre numerical system derives from studying the abacus, and suits well for Logic and for abacus calculation. In fact, I have discovered that today's Math lacks much logic.

Base

The BaseLibre numerical system starts at the Base. And this Base is free (libre), which means, the Base does not have a word, or a symbol, that represents it. I call it Base, and you can call it too, but there is no number that represents this Base.

After Base, comes the following symbols/numbers:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

These symbols are the symbols that are used to represent numbers. These symbols are the numerals of the BaseLibre numerical system.

Numerals meaning and translation

In the BaseLibre numerical system, the 0 has the same meaning of the number 1 of the Decimal system. The BaseLibre 1 corresponds to the Decimal 2. The BaseLibre 2 corresponds to the Decimal 3. And so forth.

This applies to either the BaseLibre positive numbers, either the BaseLibre negative numbers. So -0 is different from +0.

The Base, which does not have a number to represent it, also does not have a number sign prefix (of course!).

My opinion

The BaseLibre numerical system has bought me a better mentality, and got me more in touch with my centre. Not having a symbol, or a representation, for the Base of a numerical system, gives me a whole new mindset.

Also, for have being starting to count on 0, instead of starting to count on 1.

To be continued...

tags: #baselibre #numbers #numerical-system

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