Re: Number systems (was: Picto & Dil)

Ray Brown wrote:
> What strikes me as inelegant is that all the prefixes that denote division
> by a power of 1000 (or negative exponent) end in -o except for milli-;
> likewise all the prefixes that denotes multiplying by powers of 1000 end
> in -a except kilo- (which looks as tho it ought to belong to the former
> group  :)
Before I decided that Tirelat was a Sangari language, I had Tirelat
versions of the metric prefixes, with "milo-, santo-, deso-" for
"milli-, centi-, deci-" and "xekta-, kila-" for "hecto-, kilo-". These
didn't fit with the base-12 Tirelat number system, but I figured it
wasn't worth the effort to convert from metric to a 12-based measurement
system.