Learn 12480

12480 can be understood through logic and permutations of symbols. First and most important, 12480 is based on binary. The key to understanding 12480 is in the understanding of binary and all of its counterpart numeric bases (a "radix" is another name for a numeric base). Binary is just like the decimal numeral system, except that it only uses two symbols. 12480 shows that these symbols are not necessarily a 0 or a 1, but could rather be any choice of two symbols. The base just specifies how many symbols you have available to choose from when you write a number. The base number simply means the number that is 10. The base of binary is 2, so 2 = 10 in binary. It should be noted that the '2' used in the previous sentence was written in decimal. Number bases are normally specified by a subscript of the radix following the number. Only two symbols are allowed in binary, so the number after binary 11₂ is 100₂, not 12 because a '2' would add a third symbol. Each power of binary 2 is a power of 10.

12480 uses the higher numeric bases to simplify it writing. It has base 4 (quaternary), base 16 (hexadecimal, like 6 + 10 = 16), and base 256. These systems are similar to binary. The only difference is that they set the limit of available symbols to a higher number. This determines their manageability. They work the same way as was described in the last paragraph, except that the base number is 4, 16 or 256 instead of 2. You should try to convert from one number base to another using a graphing calculator to become familiar with each system. However, you will find octagonal (base 8) rather than quaternary on the average calculator.

The main 12480 chart concisely displays all of the 12480 symbols. The upper row contains the names of the different writing systems of 12480. The first column of the top chart is a list of numbers. These numbers are written in hexadecimal. A key to understanding hexadecimal is to realize that it has more possible digits than the decimal system. This is why the decimal numbers of 10 to 15 are written using A to F of the alphabet. The alphabet merely fills in when the normal numeral symbols of the decimal system are depleted. Now draw your attention to the columns of awkward symbols in the main chart. Every number (script symbol) in a row represents the same number. This is why 12480 is so universal. All of those numbers represent the same number. They are just different ways of writing the same number. You should also note that the line through the middle separates the two main columns of numbers.

Every language can be converted into 12480 using the conversion chart. English uses the Latin alphabet. (It is the writing system you are reading right now unless you translated the page.) You can convert a word from English to 12480 by finding each letter of an English word on the "Basic Latin" section of the conversion chart. Next, write the 12480 hexadecimal value of each letter from left to right. If you need to convert a symbol not in the Latin alphabet, check if it is listed on the conversion chart and use that value. (Otherwise, use the Unicode conversion procedure described on the page.) Finally, look at the main 12480 chart and match each hexadecimal number that you wrote with the hexadecimal values that you wrote. You can use whatever 12480 script, but using a non-hexadecimal script will require that you either decompose the hexadecimal values more (radix 2 and 4) or group them together (radix 256 and above). Continue this process until you have converted all of what you want to say into 12480. The conversion back from 12480 can easily be done by reversing this procedure.

If you are typing the scripts from the 12480 fonts, follow the keyboard layout shown on the font download page. Multiple scripts can be typed from one font, so look at the font download page to know which scripts are available from each font.