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numbers A method for writing numbers using their prime factors instead of digits. Visual design inspired by the Inca record-keeping technology quipu and the alien language in the 2016 movie Arrival.

With multiple knots and connected rings, it represents a composite number. Repeated factors can be compressed using exponention, which is indicated by a ring that encloses another. The starting point of the first ring is indicated with a small teardrop shape, which indicates the direction along the string to read this number.

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