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Re:Cistercian Numerals by arh68 on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:22PM (#34590061)
Reminds me a lot of the D'ni numbers from Riven.

D'ni numerals overlay two base-5 values in the same space, one horizontal & the other vertical, to represent 0–24. There's even a one-character numeral for 25, though it rarely comes up in-game. Different, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if Cistercian was the inspiration.

[1] https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dni.htm

[2] https://dni.fandom.com/wiki/D'ni_Numerals

Re:Cistercian Numerals by aendruk on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:28AM (#34592338)
It’s a fun task to generate these from the five base shapes.

https://andrew.kvalhe.im/2020-04-28

Re:Cistercian Numerals by kmill on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:43AM (#34594884)
Another number system, which I learned about recently on HN, are the Kaktovik numerals, which are even closer to D'ni. Interestingly, they were developed just a couple of years before Riven was released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

It's not a base-5 system exactly. It's base-20, where the rotated-and-superimposed digit is only one of the first three numerals. I guess you could call it a mixed-radix system, where the bases alternate like 4 5 ... 4 5 4 5 and where each group of 4 5 combines into a single symbol.