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S'pht Graphology

This is a landing for my unfinished ideas about S'pht Graphology. Feel free to steal this and let me know when I can delete this page.

I started cutting and pasting S'pht symbols yesterday. I wanted to take this:

and reproduce it with some 'standardized' S'pht symbols. It got this:

0102030402030105
0203010406070301080309100301110312
130103141503121604010317
09100301  180103  13010314

which is made of 19 distinct symbols: 01 03 07 12 04 09 15 16 06 13 11 02 17 20 05 18 08 10 14. Actually, 20 wasn't in there, but I added it for symmetry.

This term pict reminded me of columns of numbers, rather than words:

So I used it to base the number system on. Here are some guesses:

Base 10: 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 6 5 9 6 18 7 27 8 54 9 81

...but I sincerely doubt the S'pht would use base 10...

Base 3 Hybrid: 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 6 6 9 9 18 18 27 27 54 54 81 81

Who knows?

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