Numbee makes me think of Gumbee…

Anyway,

If you came across a parent and child learning the numbers and the child said the words (within earshot) “Sven””oh” “sveny” you might think that the two of them are learning and teaching how to say seventy. It isn’t an unreasonable belief, seventy is an important number to know (ten times as important as most numbers in Decimal (since the “ty it ends with means it’s a place holder (and therefore is repeated for all of the numbers inside it’s ten that require it))). But there is some chance the child meant to say “sveno sveny” and the child knows more than you do about math in this particular area! In fact the adult and child together could be using Hunimal to refer to the number 77, 77 00 which would receive that name. It’s a bit of a nickname, but if they are speaking Hunimal then this pair of mathematicians then what makes it a nickname is that it has an o and an y attached. You see, in Hunimal it is faster to refer to numbers in the oneions place with an o suffix and numbers in the huns place get an y added. Similarly Decimal has done largely the same thing by labeling the seventies as sevenTIES with the suffix showing you they are in the tens place. The only thing different in Hunimal is that there are two positions that get their own nicknames (again, the oneion’s and hun’s places). In fact, if the child is speaking in Hunimal it is saying seven hundred seventy seven thousand seven hundred faster than it could ever be said for all of human history. Hunimal saves time in teaching people things and it saves time when it is used mathematically. In fact, “sveno sveny” is 11 fewer syllables than “seven hundred seventy thousand seven hundred” What should the pair do with their extra time? I propose they do whatever they want with it. Because we are all humans it is guaranteed that what they’ll do with their free time , 11 syllables worth of it, will advance humanity in some direction forever, most likely for the better. Hunimal is hardly the only great piece of progress that is happened to language and math, it’s just the best.

I want to assure you, you don’t need to master the o, y nicknaming of our numbers to understand and use Hunimal. The number we were talking about (777,700) can also be called “sven oneions sven hun” or simply “sven sven zo”. No matter how you say it in Hunimal, however, you will be saving breath when it is compared to Decimal. Don’t you think the child who said Sveno Sveny deserves that extra time and the benefits it will bring us all? Don’t you think education could be better if it was faster and more logical? Hunimal (“Cienimal”f in Spanish and “Sotatichny” in Russian) is the most logical numbering system in the world. I can say that confidently despite the sound of “sveno sveny” sounding goofy because of the larger numbers which are easier to learn and access in Hunimal than Decimal can be understood as easily as understanding counting itself. Each larger number is just a number with an “ion” after it! The first larg4er number is Oneion and it is a hun huns (one hundred one hundreds). In decimal you would call it “Ten thousand”. This number, oneion, has two zos after its one. Those two zos each contain two zeroes (notice how even typing Hunimal saves work and time. Zero is two letters longer to type than Zo is) each. That two zo pattern continues as you count the larger numbers larger and larger, with twoion having 2 sets of two zos and threeion having three. Youi guessed it, one fourion has four sets of two zos and a fiveion contains 5 of the double zeroes. Isn’t “one, two, three, four, five” more sensible and American than “thousand million billion trillion quadrillion pentillion”? In decimal, in fact, the royal mess of names for numbers larger than ninety nine (nin in Hunimal) frequently leads people to humiliate themselves with idiotic innumeracy all the time. In the last 3 months I have encountered people not knowing how many zeroes go into a trillion, billion, million, and even a thousand! This stupidity has GOT TO GO. a thousand has 1 set of three zeroes, a million, two, a billion three, and a trillion four. It is pathetic to name a number with a “tri” prefix and then make it four of something, but English never fails to disappoint a logical well meaning mind. The pattern of inanity continues with the Greek and Latin influenced “Quadrillion” being 5 sets of 3 zeroes, despite quad meaning four every where else. A trip down Decimal’s large numbers will leave you thirsting for Hunimal’s Oneion Twoion Threeion (which overlaps as a trillion) Fourion Fiveion etc.

Back to the nicknames. I believe that’s what happened when twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety were coined. People got tired of saying ” eight ten four” for eighty four. So they added that “ty” suffix that makes ninety what we all know and can access. Huninal is just another way to access numbers, it is not a set of new numbers or even a new concept! The thought that we could use two symbols to refer to a number and their order will refer to how much they represent is known. “Bases” is what we call different systems of symbols that work like this, Everything uses its own base with computers all running off binary ( a number system with only 2 symbols (which can still express any number!)) and some techno-modern ways of referring to each color using Hexadesimal (a base that borrows a, b, c, d, e and f from English to get 16 symbols to work with (a number that is built off of binary since 16 is 2 times itself 4 times). In fact Decimal, which you are familiar with, is base ten. All I’m encouraging you to arm the next generation with is base one hundred, Hunimal has new names for most numbers from 00(zo) to 99 (nin). Let’s return to our parent child pair we overheard say “sveno sveny”. They can refer to the number 777,700 (you would space it like this 77, 77 00 in Hunimal in order to place the coma at the right locations) without saying the two zeroes (they would call them zo in proper hunimal form) because it is assumed that there is nothing in the one’s place when you leave the amount out. In fact the same is true for larger numbers of zeroes. You wouldn’t call 354,000 “Three hundred fifty four thousand zero hundred zero tens and zero” and similarly you don’t need to call 35,40 0` “Thrive oneion fort hun zo. You can leave the zo out and get the same content. It is all just a matter of style. The numbers are the same, their names are cultural and can change or not depending on a speaker’s whim. Wouldn’t you prefer to be able to use these new faster words and enjoy teaching your children each one?

The fun of Hunimal also exists with overlaps in English and Spanish. Spanish is a different and I won’t explain it here. Those overlaps give us puns and cute hominyms. I’ll give one example in Spanish just because it is such a great coincidence. The double zero of Spanish is “Ser” which means “to be” in that language. Zo, in that case refers to being and non being at the same time just because by wild coincidence “Cero” (Spanish zero) is abbreviated to the sound “ser”. Cienimal spells this as “ser” instead of “cer” because we ought to lean in to the overlaps so that we can make rich neural connections with each word. An example in English is 56, which is fix in Hunimal. It isn’t broke so we don’t need to 56 it. The puns and fun coincidences like 56 continue for many other numbers with 43 being “free”, twelve being “tune”, and 93 being pronounced “Knee”. When teaching a child math notice these overlaps and mention them. Give the child the numbers in Decimal and Hunimal. Give them the numbers in Cienimal and Sotatichny too, if you speak Spanish or Russian. Juist give them the resources to expand their mind and enrich their experience as much as possible! We could have super charged math stars and with things looking as they do, we might need them.