Re: Telona number system

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen wrote:

> It might not need a base-system in order to say what a number is,
That seems to be true.  One thing that puzzled me, is that the number names
could be somewhat variable-- e.g. 36 is 9*4.  But could it also be 6^2? or
18*2, or why not 12*3, since 24 is 12*2 and 48 is 12*4 (why not 6*4, 6*8
resp. for these???).  I think the people who speak this language must be
mathematical geniuses, and preoccupied with prime numbers-- who else could
figure out that 1918 could be described as a multiple of 7*2 *{ru 17*4}.  To
me, that's perverse/devilish brain-wiring :-)) and quite fascinating.

And now that I think of it-- "one" was not used at all in the multiples
(obviously, since *1 is trivial); it's only occurrence must be in statements
like "I  want to buy (just) one...X".  The vocabulary could probably be
tinkered with so as to eliminate the word entirely.

Another thing I wonder about-- if they have separate symbols for numbers,
how are multiples written? anything like place notation?  what would divi
ilcur (9*4, 36) look like? (well, I can image a "9" symbol combined with a
"4" symbol modified to indicate it's a multiplier...) or  that 1918
number???

I certainly look forward to JK's fuller explanation.