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== Numbers ==
[[File:glyph number styles.png|thumb|200px|Traditional ''1173'' vs. Stylized ''<nowiki>'73</nowiki>'']]
[[File:Glyph 1173 colored.svg|150px|right]]▼
Glyphs may also be used to represent numbers. A base ten number system with a semblance of positional notation is used.{{17s ref|topic|6487|Thaylen and Alethi Glyph Translation|date=2014-3-6}} Numerals are written with bilateral symmetry and may be stylized for artistic or aesthetic purposes. It is unclear whether
The names used for the numbers does vary, even among the Vorin nations. In Vorin usage, the numbers one through ten are named after the ten [[Herald]]s. Each is also assigned a suffix, and the names of larger numbers are created by combining these suffixes. Thus the number "1173" is "Jesesabach", using Jes (1), -es (1), -ab (7), -ach (3).
{| class="infobox"
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!Number
|1||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9||10
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!Alethi Name
|Jes||Nan||Chach||Vev||Palah||Shash||Betab||Kak||Tanat||Ishi
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!Suffix
|<nowiki>-es</nowiki>||<nowiki>-an</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ach</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ev</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ah</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ash</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ab</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ak</nowiki>||<nowiki>-at</nowiki>||<nowiki>-ish</nowiki>
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Place value is read from top to bottom. Different glyphs are sometimes used to represent numbers depending on place value. For example, the symbol "2" in the number "20" is not the same symbol used in the number "2". In the example to the right using "1173", the light blue represents "3", the green represents "70", the red represents "100", and the dark blue represents "1000". Note that the blue "3" and red "1" differ from their basic configuration.
=== Numerals ===
<gallery widths=
glyph 0.svg | 0
glyph 1.svg | 1
glyph 2.svg | 2
glyph 3.svg | 3
glyph 4.svg | 4
glyph 5.svg | 5
glyph 6.svg | 6
glyph 7.svg | 7
glyph 8.svg | 8
glyph 9.svg | 9
glyph 10.svg | 10
glyph 20.svg | 20
glyph 1173.svg | 1173
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