tan e nanpa pi toki pona

Tinkerers Anonymous: Some people can't help making changes to "fix" Toki Pona. This is a playground for their ideas.
Tokiponidistoj: Iuj homoj nepre volas fari ŝanĝojn por "ripari" Tokiponon. Jen ludejo por iliaj ideoj.
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Jan Tomen
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Re: tan e nanpa pi toki pona

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I think the easiest way of expressing complex numbers is directly translating a decimal positional system that everyone already knows.

We can express numbers 0 to 9 already: wan, tu, tu-wan, tu-tu, luka, luka-wan, luka-tu, luka-tu-wan, luka-tu-tu.
Just spell the numbers in their respective positions using pi.

This year is 2017 - suko suno ni li nanpa pi tu pi ala pi wan pi luka-tu

Not the most practical but again, according to pu is better to just not use those kind of numbers. If we need to, we should stick to the simplest solution within toki pona framework.
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Basically, I agree. But I do think that, if we are going to break with tp to the extent of using place notation, we might as well (better) use a full set of digits as well and even some accompanying paraphernalia. My suggestion is around here somewhere, along with countless others.
In your heading, where are the numbers fetched from or what do they cause? And who does this?
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Re: tan e nanpa pi toki pona

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Well, while new words for a full set of digits are sanctioned by the community, we can still use the tools we already have.

I don't understand your question.
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Your title says "makes the numbers of toki pona be from/be a cause of..."
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jan Skejakto started the forum thread using that title. Idk :?
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Oops, I didn't notice this was an old thread. Never mind.
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I’ve seen sike as 10
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