Re: CONLANG Digest - 15 Jan 2000 to 16 Jan 2000 (#2000-17)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 16:30 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Sure. In fact, I've imagined a usage _lev_ and _twel_ for base-10 11
> and 12, and the suffix -doz for multiples of twelve, so that 71 =
> fivedoz-lev. For 144, "gross", above that, perhaps you could just reuse
> base-10 words, redefining "thousand" as 1728 (base10)
FWIW, 1728 is a "great gross". After that you could start adding
new "great"s, on the model of great-great-grandfathers.
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