23820 X 256 = 6,097,920.000 terms
Actually these are just positive
terms. You can create an equal number of negative terms. There
are also sixteen million positive
integers
within a single glyph, but these things aren't fully implemented
within the Instrumentation
game,
so I'm not going to count them as fully defined (although, they
do exist in the
smartphone
app).
Of course, this does count
plurals
and
degree forms as
separate 'terms' (which technically they are within
Instrumentation), but if we pull those out it still leaves 4507
'
root words' in the Creation and
Description layers. And I'm also sure that many of the
actual translated terms will not be used very often or easily
because their meanings are somewhat preposterous, but they do
still qualify as 'terms'. (hit '
Fortune' a few times
in the
game and you'll see
what I mean)
Instrumentation makes it easier than ever to say "colorless
green ideas sleep furiously".