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As for the equation itself, the D'ni numerical system is rather unique in that all the numbers have boxes around them. As a result when writing a number with multiple digits the whole number is written inside of a long rectangle. This has been seen in many places all around D'ni and their ages. Here it seems that D'ni extended this to their equations. The same long rectangles are written around whole expressions seeming to indicate, truthfully, that an expression is actually just a different way to write a number. Incidentally, this may explain why we have never see equations anywhere as the D'ni simply treated them as numbers and found little use for the equations themselves in formal letters. Additionally the D'ni have a unique way of writing an equation. The advantage of their system is that it allows us to write expressions without the use of order of operations or parenthesis. So, an expression like 2 * (3 + 4) would be written ''2 34 + *'' all in a large rectangle with double lines separating the different numbers. At the very least, this particular D'ni man had this habit. As we discussed, it is possible that not all of D'ni shared this notation. | As for the equation itself, the D'ni numerical system is rather unique in that all the numbers have boxes around them. As a result when writing a number with multiple digits the whole number is written inside of a long rectangle. This has been seen in many places all around D'ni and their ages. Here it seems that D'ni extended this to their equations. The same long rectangles are written around whole expressions seeming to indicate, truthfully, that an expression is actually just a different way to write a number. Incidentally, this may explain why we have never see equations anywhere as the D'ni simply treated them as numbers and found little use for the equations themselves in formal letters. Additionally the D'ni have a unique way of writing an equation. The advantage of their system is that it allows us to write expressions without the use of order of operations or parenthesis. So, an expression like 2 * (3 + 4) would be written ''2 34 + *'' all in a large rectangle with double lines separating the different numbers. At the very least, this particular D'ni man had this habit. As we discussed, it is possible that not all of D'ni shared this notation. | ||