The idea came out of an attempt to represent numbers without having to choose an arbitrary base, i.e. an alternative to the place value system. Just to be clea

The idea came out of an attempt to represent numbers without having to choose an arbitrary base, i.e. an alternative to the place value system. Just to be clear, this is an art project with no practical use that I can think of. It's hard to count using these numbers, but factoring them is trivial.