raisel-the-riveter:

raisel-the-riveter:

I totally forgot that discworld trolls have a base-many number system (i.e., one two three many, many-one many-two many-three many-many)

like?? this means their version of 100 is what we would call 16 (they call it “lots”!)

So like

1 2 3 many

many1 many2 many3 many-many

many-many1 many-many2 many-many3 many-many-many

many-many-many1 many-many-many2 many-many-many3 lots

and then….??

lots1 lots2 lots3 lots-many

lots-many1 lots-many2 lots-many3 lots-many-many

lots-many-many1….. etc…

so they must have numbers like:

lots-many-many-many-2 (I think this would be 30??)

2lots (32)

2lots-many-1 (37?)

many-lots (64)

many-lots-many-many-3 (75? I think?)

their version of 1000 (lots x lots) would be 256!