/sci/ - Science & Math

I think the number "TEN" should have its OWN numeral as I always wondered, since we're so used to counting in COMPLETE UNITS of TEN, why are there 2 numerals that represent the last number in each unit? Why have we started counting with a 1 in front of the TEN space? I think it should be like this.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X

and now that we are moving on from TEN it's...

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1X

Ah, you thought 2x? well again, because we have 10 SPECIFIC numerals instead of only 9 and confusingly using 2 numerals to represent TEN, we don't say "20" we say 1X. so 1X is the same value still, but instead of an extra 1 added to the first number, we complete the numbers 11-20 with a 1X.

The reason I like it this way is it gets rid of the zero. It's so redundant. 0 itself has no value! It doesn't actually exist! It's nothing! So when we use zero we really just mean TEN in every case, even with 20, it's ONE PLUS TEN. So 1X ! Getting rid of the zero makes this much easier as you have a complete set of 10 individual numbers instead of only 9 and THEN repeating numbers before we even completed a unit of TEN!

Ok so let's do math

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14X

so instead of carrying a one, which is a bit confusing to do I don't know why we do that stuff, it sucks, but we now can just drop down the value for this specific problem. So 150 is now written as "14X". As you can see, all we did is drop down the normal values. 5+5=X and then 7+7=14. As 14X means FOURTEEN and aTEN (not fourteen PLUS ten, fourteen AND ten) we can write it as 14X instead of 150

This speeds up the process of doing math and is much less time consuming (in my opinion)

Go ahead, try it.

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