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The original was posted on /r/programminglanguages by /u/myringotomy on 2024-08-15 04:25:23+00:00.

The idea is simple, you have a number with multiple decimal points like 12.3.1

Theoretically you could have as many decimal points as you want and the numbers could be sorted properly and have operators defined on them that would increment, decrement, and maybe even other operators.

this kind of scheme is also often used in outlines and there you could have other operators such as “move down”, “move up”, “move left”, “move right” etc. These are more complex operations of course but theoretically they could be done with special operators or functions.

Finally dates (and datetimes) could also be represented with a scheme like this. 2024.07.15.13.47.23.1234 you could even represent the time zone as an integer and prepend or append it there.