We use the decimal system globally in the current civilization. But it isn’t the only number system, which we use. Every computer calculates within the dual system, which means the number basis isn’t ten, but two. The number three would be written as 11 in the dual system. Old computer codes use the octal system, this means numbers based on the eight, for brevity before the machine translates the code into the dual system too. Modern computer codes can still comprise some octal code, but use mainly the hexadecimal system for the same purpose. The eleven, for example, is usually written as 0b in the hexadecimal code because we don’t have enough digits because we are too much used to the decimal system. Because of this it is often hard to understand the calculations and thoughts of the most brilliant minds of antiquity because they used the dodecimal system, which means numbers based on the twelve. Except when we look to Central America, where numbers on the basis of the thirteen were preferred. Although the Maya wrote the four as four points and the five as one stroke. This change in the representation could hint to a number system, which is based on the five.

When you know what number you have in what number system, then the numbers can still be represented with different glyphs. Whether you write 8 or VIII, both can mean eight in a decimal system, but the latter would also be able to represent the eight in system based on the five. The Arabian digits, which we use, were derived from the Indian digits, where the eight is written as ८. In the Indian script is the three written as ३, the six as ६, and the nine as ९. So the six isn’t an inverted nine and vice-versa, but the six is a mirrored three and vice-versa. The three also can’t be mirrored for forming an eight together with the original. All these silly approaches are sometimes used to explain esoteric meanings of numbers, but such vulgar numerology is simply unsubstantiated and hence wrong!

The most frequent thing done in vulgar numerology is to add the digits of a number until only a single digit is left. For example ab requires to add 0a and 0b and the result is 05 in the hexadecimal system: ten plus eleven would be twenty-one, but this exceeds sixteen, so sixteen has to be subtracted and the result is five. But if it would be the dodecimal system, which the ancient Chaldeans, who were the main discoverers of astrology, had used, then the result would be nine. The method is obviously faulty. In the dual system would we arrive at the number one with every source number. The 11 is said to show mirroring, but 11 means nine in the octal system, seventeen in the hexadecimal system, thirteen in the dodecimal system, eight if we use the seven as the number base, and four if we use the three as the number base. Using the method only with decimal numbers hides at best only how faulty the method is.

Computer scientists use the dual, octal, and hexadecimal systems not to confuse people, but because these systems are useful for handling computers. The dodecimal system was used in antiquity because it is much more sensible than the decimal system. If you prefer integer numbers, as the people of antiquity did and numerologists do until today, then you are much better of with the number base twelve. When you divide the number ten through other numbers, then you get integer numbers only with the two and the five. But when you divide the number twelve through other numbers, then you get integer numbers with the two, the three, the four, and the six. The basis twelve was chosen on substantial mathematical considerations!

There is a substantiated numerology too. The immediately identifiable difference is that substantiated numerology is never dependent on how the numbers are represented! Neither on the basis of the number system nor on the used glyphs. For example the seven planets or wandering stars, that the Chaldeans knew, were connected with the twelve signs of the zodiac in the way that seven is three plus four, while twelve is three times four. This is true in every number system! Hence it is substantiated and worth to be considered. The nine stars of Japanese astrology aren’t worth to be considered because they are nothing else than the nine digits, which vulgar numerology on the basis of the decimal system assigns to the years. Why not twelve numbers or sixteen numbers (the so useful hexadecimal system) or only three numbers?

Soviet computer scientists experimented with a strange trinary system, which was expected to outperform computers, which calculate in the dual system, what every current computer does. While these computers use only 0 and 1, the Soviet computer scientists wanted computers, which would have used the numbers 1 and 0 and -1. Whether that could ever have fulfilled any expectations is questionable. But until today would some computer scientists like to figure that out.