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Two or More Dimensions

Compound symbols can have more than two dimensions. To understand this, let us look at our city address analogy again. We have already considered the two-dimensional street address that includes a street number. In compound symbol parlance, the address 123 Main St. might look like this:

MAIN.123

What if we put in a third dimension? Consider what 123 Main St., Suite 987 would look like in compound symbol parlance:

MAIN.123.987

You could put in more dimensions; say office number 12 in Suite 987. Another dimension could be a particular in-basket in office 12. These might be represented in compound symbol parlance as:

MAIN.123.987.12.inbskt1