Re: base-20 (was Re: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri)

On Friday 20 August 2004 22:11, John Quijada wrote:

 > I believe many of the Northeast Caucasian languages such
 > as Avar, Lezgian, Dargwa, etc., are vigesimal, i.e., base
 > 20.  I will look up how they put their numbers together
 > and get back to you.
 >
 > Also:  Before finally deciding to change it to base-100,
 > Ithkuil used to be base-20.

Base 10 and base 20 are not very economical, though. 10 can
only be divided into 2 and 5, 20 as well. But base-100 is
just perverse IMO -- are there unique names for all numbers
from 0 to 99?! That'd be very much a tax on memory. Or are
there possiblities given to make counting easier, since
Ithkuil is a philosophical lang and I guess thus has
elements of a loglang?

Carsten

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