Re: USAGE: Well, at least he created numbers.....

En réponse à John-Emmanuel <jokerhand@...>:

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> Have fun!
> John.
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Well, I've worked out the system. I won't spoil the fun for others, so I won't
reveal it (unless asked), but I must say it's always been a kind of system I
find quite natural, though I think it can appear only in languages that use
decimal numerotation for a long time (though it doesn't need a zero, you could
easily use the Chinese numeral ideograms for this system :)) ).

Speaking of Chinese numerals, did anyone work out a system that, like in
Mandarin, mark missing orders? I mean, in Chinese, 409 is (sorry, I don't know
the tone numbers, so this one will be toneless, but I suppose everyone with a
little knowledge of Chinese can work them out): si-bai-ling-jiu: 4-100-empty-9.
I find such an idea quite cool :))) .

Still have to work out Itakian numerals... I have the strange intuition that
they are gonna be verbs :))) .

Christophe.

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