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s7836The Rykami Argam Sketchbook |
The Reference Appendix
The back inside cover of the Rykami Argam features material I used as reference as I studied large number bases. Most of the material constituted an attempt to standardize my notation.
The right page shows argam numerals sufficient to represent pure base 360 (“kinoctoval” or “kintoval”). The argam are presented in rows by their dozens, gridded into blocks of sixty. This page was updated continually through late 2008. Currently there are a couple differences between this reference and the latest argam, notably digits 47, 72, 111, and 158. Primes are underscored in red, squares in green. Vigesimal multiples are noted in blue to the right and under the numeral. This set of numerals is known as argam-kinoctove. I use these in writing dimensions in the course of developing construction visualization. The dimension strings are a mixed radix system, using an “infinite base” for feet, dozenal for inches, and either octal or hexadecimal for fractions of an inch. This way, all strings have at most three places. The “infinite base” effectively never escalates higher than the middle 100s. This practice streamlines dealing with plan information so that projects can be assembled within the 1-3 week development window, and one of what I consider my most effective tools. At times, feet are expressed in sexagesimal. The system is called taqgâ, “length, metric”, in lrixe. This web page enlarges the right page shown here.
The left page summarizes argam that result from studies elsewhere in the sketchbook. Argam numerals for the superior highly composite numbers appears at the upper right of the left page, along with some of their arithmetic properties, studied also at s7836a07 and s7836a19. Below this, the table “Geometric Progression of the Simplest Six Prime Numbers” shows argam for the first dozen powers of the six smallest primes, studied also at s7836a12 and expanded at s7836a13. The table “Highly Composite Integers and Peers” shows numerals for numbers that are products of the smallest primes, studied at pages like s5231a93 that developed into studies like this PDF, and in prime power matrices at s7836b14.
Some further development has taken place since this work was scanned in 2009; the page may be rescanned soon.
The pages were written 21 and 28 December 2007, Tayya 7b07, 7b12, seven dozen eleventh phase (Salcyra-Lectajinal Xrga, “life phase of the Virtual Solid Order”), St. Louis.
This page last modified Saturday 14 April 2012.