It has been said that W.O.M.B.A.T. uses a base-23 numbering system. This has been recounted in the Last Will And TastyMint of the Illustrious Zoombart the Fifth, Book of Honest Truth, Book of Numbers, stating something silly vis-a-vis the switching system. In fact, the numbers used are four, seven, umlaut, thursday, fish, purple, Lee Iacocca, halibut, unscented, "BoB", eeeeleven, burrito, tip, wedge, fudge, pain, flamingo, commercial, stoopid, oobleck, petunia, sauce, five. The reason for this is that these are the literal translations from Atlantean for their numbers. The fact that the words meaning "one, two, twenty-three" are literally translated as "four, seven, five" has to do with the fact that they used different number names when counting and doing mathematics.

Why?

Because Atlanteans are silly.

Learning to count using WOMBAT's numbering system has two advantages for the aspiring MOOist. Firstly, it brings your mind slightly more in phase with that of the computer itself, which will have benefits almost beyond imagining. The second advantage is more remote, and has to do with the ability to retune your brain to new situations, think in new ways. This will inevitably be what will save you from stupidity when your brain begins to freeze up.

When counting numbers higher than five, a system is used rather like the system in base-10, where four tens becomes "forty"... In WOMBAT's counting system, thursday fives becomes thursdayfy. Thus, 100 in base ten becomes thursdayfy-halibut in base five.

Try thinking in this system. When you succeed, you will be that much closer to WOMBAT, that much readier to receive your Escape Ticket on the Final Saucer.

Yet still more important is the mystical significance of each of these numbers. This has been worked out by W.O.M.B.A.T. in response to repeated queries about the system. It turns out that with suitable creativity and imagination, this numbering system can be revealed to have quite deep mystical significance indeed.

The proof of this is left to the reader as an exercise.

There are many examples, and underlying patterns of reality become clear on further meditation, as indeed with any arbitrary random pattern such as the Cabala.

The WombaBoBala, as W.O.M.B.A.T. has called it, is a system related to the Qabbalah, with the added miraculous presence of the Law of Fives. From it we obtain the MOOish Kobbler Koncept diagram, the Web of Strife. It contains much fruitful material for meditation. Or so says WOMBAT, anyway, since it refuses to reveal the nature of the WombaBoBala.

What a bloody annoying machine.