saw this getting shared around other sites and I thought it was interesting enough to bring over here:
I think it's interesting to at least... consciously think about things so ingrained like base-10 thinking (the entire SI system is built on it!) and arabic numerals that there's really ever little talk about their merits/shortfalls.
In particular a thing I think is really interesting about the numeric symbols presented here is that as the article points out, simple mathematical operations become almost a form of geometric pattern matching.
I doubt the impact on say, higher mathematics would be significant one way or another, but most people only really engage with simple arithmetic on a casual day to day basis and I can see how an approach to numeric symbols like this could be practical and useful! In particular I sort of casually wonder if there would be any benefits to dysnumeric people to visualize numbers and operations in a form like this?
