Forgive me for a possibly dumb question, I'm very shallow at math, but is there any number system (or I don't know, it looks more like a number mask system) in which negative numbers are represented as letters? An example could look like that:
| -12 | -11 | -10 | -f | -e | -d | -c | -b | -a | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zy | zz | z0 | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ... |
Now, I can't yet imagine how the fractional numbers would look like in such a system, but if only used for integers, is there some decorative value to that? I need that for a coordinate system for an infinite field (or like ever-expanding field)