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Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming)

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Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> writes:
> On 12/09/2026 3:07 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
>> jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> writes:
>>> It's easier, at least for me, to make a “mental map” of where things are
>>> when they have names rather than numbers, even if those names are
>>> short. It's easier to recall “watermellon”, “apple”, “grape” than 39,
>>> 23, 5 even though both sets are decending in magnitude.  [...]
>> In English, Hebrew, Greek, etc., the obvious alternative to numbers
>> is to use letters of the alphabet: register A, register B, register
>> C, etc.  In Chinese, of course, there is no alphabet, but, as I
>> understand it (my Chinese is mostly limited to reading datasheets),
>> the Ten Heavenly Stems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Stems>
>> and Twelve Earthly Branches
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches> are used in much the
>> same way.  [...]
>
> You can add to this list a few hieroglyphs.  There are a little over se-
> ven hundred in the standard /middle egyptian/ and you can see most of
> them at the back of Gardiner's book.  Well, probably all of them in the
> most recent edition. [...]

Is there a sequence of hieroglyphs that is conventionally used as
ordinals in the way that the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are?

Kragen

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