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| From | Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> |
| Newsgroups | alt.sys.pdp10, comp.arch, alt.history.ancient-egypt |
| Subject | Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) |
| Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:40:48 -0300 |
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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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the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-11 16:07 -0300
Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-14 01:12 +0800
Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-14 14:40 -0300
Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) quadibloc@invalid.com (John Savard) - 2026-10-26 03:00 +0000
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