Tonal system
I know I have nature on my side; if I do not succeed to impress upon you its utility and great importance to mankind, it will reflect that much less credit upon our generation, upon scientific men and philosophers.
[2]He proposed names for the digits, calling zero "noll" and counting (from one to sixteen): "An, de, ti, go, su, by, ra, me, ni, ko, hu, vy, la, po, fy, ton."
(Unicode approximation: ⬯𐑑߶ƷႷ5678𝓈9꒹🝣𐐁ꯖⳠ) Later, the hexadecimal notation overcame this same obstacle by using the digits 0 through 9 followed by the letters A through F. The numbers 1116 and 1216 would be said "tonan", "tonde", etc.
In his book he made a reference to music notation, where binary division is already in use for time.
He also discussed the problem of pitch inflation, which he proposed to solve by setting the A below middle C to a frequency of san per timmill (194 Hz).
The proposed figures on the right are based on rotations of those on the left (assigning value 10 to symbol 9).
