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The Kius number system is based on fours and eights. Technically there's just four numbers - a series of dashes: one dash for "one", two dashes for "two", etc. - adding dots before and/or after these dashes, as well as using various prefixes changes the value of the number.

A Kius number is called a "wale" (pronounced: wah-lee)

Any one set of four numbers is called a "meuwakay" (mee-oo-wa-kay) - there are 36 of these in the number system.
A set of eight (made up of two meuwakay) is a "washukay" (wa-shoo-kay) - there's 18 of these.
Since any one prefix can be used to generate sixteen numbers, there's a name for that type of group as well: "shamwakay" (shahm-wa-kay) - there's 9 of those

If you're talking about all 144 numbers at once, that's called: "ashwa" (ash-wa).

Kius Numbers

Click here to learn more about the significance of numbers in Kius culture.

The Kius number system has been a source of heartburn for me for years - in fact this latest set you see before you is literally hot off the press when I realized there were 118 letters in the new alphabet and only 112 numbers in the new system- how can you count letters if you don't have the numbers to count with?!
This placed me in the wretched quandary of coming up with more numbers. Fortunately it was much easier than I had feared and the 32 new numbers aren't where you'd think they are!
With adding the newer numbers I had to change the names of some as well; actually I'm glad I had to make the change as they now make a touch more sense (really!).

Anyway, that all said, I don't have a math system worked out yet. I tried once or twice in college, but haven't really picked it back up. Fear not Kius fans! I'll have a math system for you number-crunching pleasure before long!!!
Stay posted...

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