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This week\u2019s post is a follow up to last week\u2019s in which I encountered an example of a rarely used Aurebesh number system and incorrectly guessed how to properly read it.<\/p>\n

In doing some research I discovered that it is possible to write Aurebesh numbers in two different formats, in the same way we use both Arabic and Roman numerals in English. With this new information, I have corrected the translation in the entry\u00a0about\u00a0Dromund Kaas signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The most common form of Aurebesh numerals more or less match the appearance of Aurebesh letters, but the second technical style uses pips and dashes and is perhaps related to droids\u2019 binary language.<\/p>\n

I was able to find examples of both styles in canonical sources and in SWTOR and imagine\u00a0that most citizens of the galaxy use them interchangeably.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0origins of Aurebesh’s dual number systems, however, are murky as far as I can tell. The original Aurebesh guide from West End Games did not indicate glyphs for numbers, and two of the first fan-created fonts from the 1990\u2019s included their own style of numbers. The iterations that followed use differing variations of those styles and have found their way into official content. I suspect which type\u00a0of numbers we encounter in the Star Wars universe simply comes down to which font the artists who created the prop, scene or illustration had on hand.<\/p>\n

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Looking at both, it\u2019s clear to me that the\u00a0styles\u00a0were developed separately from the original Aurebesh. The technical numbers with their pips and dashes are appropriately futuristic, but they don\u2019t really match the rest of the alphabet. While the Arabic style more closely matches the Aurebesh, the glyphs too closely duplicate\u00a0our own numbers for my taste. Those numbers could appear in a non-Star Wars setting and remain perfectly readable.<\/p>\n

However, we can assume that the history and development of\u00a0writing in the Star Wars universe is at least as diverse as it is in our own. The letters of the Aurabesh could very well have come from one corner\u00a0of the galaxy, and\u00a0the numbers from another. At any rate, be glad that we don’t count like the Gree and\u00a0have to recite multiplication tables using\u00a0hexadecimal color codes!<\/p>\n

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