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We should count in base four
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Smart, I like the shorter words. And for the suffixes your basically picking based on the digits position from the left? So you suggest the suffixes: Place | suffix
1 place | 4 place | 16 place | Y 64 place | O 256 place | A
I believe we'd have to continue a bit longer and maybe also have a suffix for 4th place? I would suggest using both prefixes and suffixes, maybe in this order: Place | suffix | prefix
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1 place | | 4 place | |A 16 place | A |A 64 place | O |A 256 place | Y |A 1024th place || O 4096th place | A | O
... And so on, you can probably see how you could keep going in order to express any number up to 16777216. After that we might have to start using two letter prefixes/suffixes like "la", "ro" or whatever