Brilliant Stuff Julian..
Though I would posit that the original Octadic Code would be "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8"
And the newer Decamonic Code adding 9 and 0, as a Iron and Crystal, respectively. (or the other way around, depending on your programming.)
Zero would make more sense as something that creeped in after Chaos entered the World Machine, rather than something they had before the Great Error.
It also makes Octamonists even stranger and backwards, not having the Zero to aid them with calculations.
-Santo
aum shanti shanti shantih.
"The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story." - from
the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, julianlord <julian.lord_at_Izp31xUnSberlBtDGehTzoqRPpPbiOrRBP_CQa82bES73e7rNue2qwNPo70fzlZfzPBHTxYKdjC_3r7yvw.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> Mostali have two alphabets -- the ancient octadic one can be rendered using
> numbers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ; whilst moving into Historic times, they use an
> extended alphabet 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, the extra characters providing more
> accurate representation of non-mostali realities, necessary for the
> pragmatic representation of the ongoing corrective requirements.
>
> Mostali also use the point character "." for punctuation purposes, and
> words are rationally organised into bits of information from 1 to 10
> characters long depending on the level of information required to vehicle
> each specific concept.
>
> Phonetic noises for the representation of these infograms have been
> developed for purely practical purposes, echoing the vocalic nature of the
> Primes and the consonantic nature of the other numbers, and are used day to
> day ; even though the risk exists that these noises can falsely be held to
> contain meanings in and of themselves, rather than being the arbitrarily
> designated codes intended in and required of the original design. The
> correct manner of understanding such phonetic noises is as locally
> implemented security code. No means to overcome this technical limitation
> have so far been discovered.
>
> It is recommended that those units lacking the minimal technical
> specifications for processing decadic code should be allocated to shifts
> describable using octadic instructions.
>
> Foremen are reminded that all functionally active monoRunic Ancient Units
> have been either upgraded to include the most current version of clayware
> I/O, or permanently decommissioned, or integrated into some functionally
> required octadic/decadic interface work units ; in all cases to provide for
> optimal task completion conditions ; but that some individual unrepaired
> Units may exist in the field, whose instructions may be either garbled or
> damageable. Extreme caution is to be exercised upon encountering such Units,
> due to the very technical limitations of their basic cybernetics, not
> upgraded to currently accurate functional cognitive representation of
> empirical conditions.
>
> Octadic code is compatible with decadic, but retro-compatibility is only
> partially assured -- Foremen and specialist Units should always remain aware
> that verbose instructions are desirable for compatibility purposes, to
> determine functionality or brokenness of older Units operating older
> versions of the clayware, or having no clayware installed.
>
> Communications with non-Mostali chaos-minds have been proven conclusively
> in 010.32.364878.154.3459733.4526 to be _fundamentally_ incompatible with
> even Ancient Binary, therefore Units are expressly instructed to disengage
> all interface systems except for tertiary ludic mode. It has been
> extensively determined in the paper that cessation of all interface
> functions is materially counterproductive, whereas some forms of
> non-deterministically constructed I/O schemes have successfully increased
> average test subjects' survivability ratio excommunicatio by 3.72%.
>
> It has been demonstrated in 010.32.189658.1566.185165.66618.254 that some
> monoRunic Units can simply fail to acknowledge decadic code, even when
> expressed within octadic limitations, but Foremen are assured that this
> purely technical issue will be resolved in due course by the currently
> functional quicksilver units.
>
> Do not be alarmed.
>
> Supreme Unit is watching you.
>
> Julian Lord
>
>
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