Research design

1. Placeholders represent a location. 

Placeholders can not connect and connect to form girth (Numeric Values). There is only one placeholder on each line describing each one. A placeholder makes a place for the NV to connect to create a number. 

2. Numeric Values represent girth.

Numeric values can connect to create larger numeric values.

They can be removed from other NV to create smaller NV.

Numeric Values can not be subtracted, added, multiplied, or divided. This is because multiplication and division duplicates and creates segments of a number. NV can’t have negatives. They are representing girth only. There is no such thing as negative girth.

 Subnumerics does not use the same rules that  numbers use  because they are disassembled parts of the numbers-and therefore, we must assume rules of numbers are different then the rules of subnumerics. If the parts are disassembled, then we must assume that the rules are different, too.