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    Writing Numbers With Tengwar: A Practical Guide Per Lindberg

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    Tengwar numbers are written with the least significant digit first, opposite to Arabic numbers. The numerals 0-9 are represented by specific Tengwar characters. Sometimes Eldar used a duodecimal system with twelve symbols instead of ten. Numbers can be marked with dots or lines to indicate the base, with decimal marked above and duodecimal below. Exercises are provided to practice transcribing between decimal and duodecimal numbering systems.

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    Tengwar numbers are written with the least significant digit first, opposite to Arabic numbers. The numerals 0-9 are represented by specific Tengwar characters. Sometimes Eldar used a duodecimal system with twelve symbols instead of ten. Numbers can be marked with dots or lines to indicate the base, with decimal marked above and duodecimal below. Exercises are provided to practice transcribing between decimal and duodecimal numbering systems.

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    Tengwar numbers are written with the least significant digit first, opposite to Arabic numbers. The numerals 0-9 are represented by specific Tengwar characters. Sometimes Eldar used a duodecimal system with twelve symbols instead of ten. Numbers can be marked with dots or lines to indicate the base, with decimal marked above and duodecimal below. Exercises are provided to practice transcribing between decimal and duodecimal numbering systems.

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    Writing Numbers With Tengwar: A Practical Guide Per Lindberg

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    Writing numbers with Tengwar page 1 Per Lindberg, 2002-03-24

    Writing numbers with Tengwar


    A practical guide
    Per Lindberg
    Tengwar numbers are written with the least significant digit first. This is backwards
    compared to Arabic numbers, but on the other hand there is no a priori rule on which digit
    should come first, so the Arabic numbers are just as backwards compared to the Tengwar
    numbers.
    The numerals 0-9 are written:
    - : - ] ]
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    Example: the number 6930871 is written :]-] .
    Duodecimal numbers
    Sometimes the Eldar also used a duodecimal number system (with twelve symbols instead of
    ten as in Arabic numbers). The dwarves only used this system. Men of the West in the third
    age used the decimal system.
    A duodecimal number is based on the number 12 instead of 10, and counts in ones, dozens,
    grosses etc, instead of ones, tens, hundreds, etc.
    Example: The duodecimal number
    *
    1B6A
    12
    equals the decimal number 3394
    10
    :
    1 x 12
    3
    + 11 x 12
    2
    + 6 x 12
    1
    + 10 x 12
    0
    = 1728 + 1584 + 72 + 10 = 3394
    The duodecimal numerals A and B are written:
    :
    10
    10
    11
    10

    *
    To distinguish numbers of different base, the base is written as a subscript after the number. Also, the
    letters A
    12
    and B
    12
    are often used as symbols for the values ten and eleven.
    Writing numbers with Tengwar page 2 Per Lindberg, 2002-03-24
    Markings
    Numerals are normally easy to discern and thus need not be marked. If needed, special
    markings can be used. The following examples show how 3394 (1B6A12) can be written with
    various markings:
    Decimal numbers can be marked with a dot above each tengwa: ]
    Long decimal numbers in the midst of words can be marked with a line above:
    ]
    Duodecimal numbers are marked with dots or a line below: ::
    When dots are used to mark duodecimal numbers, the duodecade (the digit for twelves)
    can be marked with a small circle: ::
    Summary
    -
    0
    :
    1
    -
    2

    7
    ]
    8
    ]
    9
    Excercises
    1. Transcribe the number 1420, both in decimal and in duodecimal.
    2. What happened in the Second Age year ]: ?
    3. What is the decimal equivalent of :] ?

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