Skunk's current mindrot is to develop a way of writing the Tinish 'Legs' base 4 numeral system from A Fire Upon The Deep.

We know from Chapter 5 that 15 in Tinish base 10 (Foreclaws system) is represented as two triangles in Tinish base 4 (Legs system).

#VernorVinge #Tines #AFireUponTheDeep

25 Favorite Science Fiction Novels
No particular order
Day 4/25
#afireuponthedeep
#vernorvinge
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge #sciencefiction

What are the odds that during the exodus from the info cesspool that is X, I randomly snagged #Afireuponthedeep at my local bookstore? Little did I know I'd found a #scifi classic that warned readers about the "Net of a Million Lies" over a decade before the major social media networks were founded.