from this reblog of a post which i archived here

hi, me from 8 months ago. you can do better. you should also exercise being less of a fucking pedant

• i (value of 1)
• * (groups two consecutive values (how did i miss this opportunity, smh))
• ~ (multiplicative inverse)

to demonstrate the functionality of this beautiful 3-symbol-system you so devastatingly missed all that time ago, i will express the same values you did here

1/2 = ~*ii
2/3 = ~**iii
-4/7 = ~******iiiiiii~******iiiiiii~******iiiiiii~******iiiiiiiii*ii

maybe this is a mess, but who cares, it's fun! i have also added even more equivalent representations of every number. this pairing mechanism can be used to represent larger integers in many ways. for example, 4 = ***iiii = **i*iii = **ii*ii = *i**iii = *i*i*ii

i don't think you can go any smaller without leaving numbers out, but maybe i'll come up with something in 8 months and be mad at this version of me who doesn't even know about the ULTIMATUM HYPERFUNCTOR SYMBOL which unambiguously solves the entire problem in one symbol