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Definitely see how this was unclear; the point it was trying to make wasn't that Japanese numerals are base-16, but rather that the positional structure is similar to the Japanese system
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The '''Steel alphabet''' was the set of glyphs used on [[Scadrial]]. It has been shown that the glyphs evolved over time.{{ref|name=symbols}}
Most of the symbols were also used to represent various metals and numbers. The steel alphabet used a base-16 numbering system with a positional structure similar to
At some point the alphabet diverged such that the symbols used to represent [[Feruchemical]] metals were distinct to those used by [[Allomancy]] and the general alphabet.{{ref|name=Feruchemy table}}
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