Re: Telona number system

Mike Ellis wrote:

(I wrote:)
> >2. In Gwr, the largest number named is 1000, chih.  Million is chih maq,
> >lit. 1000 vast, but maq here means 'multiplied by itself'; (US) billion
> >(thousand million) is chih maq 2 (1000^2), then chih maq 3 (1000^3) and
so
> >on.
>
> That's cool, you've got something like "... to the power of ..." in a nice
> short word _maq_. Might this be used for other exponents? _8 maq 4_ for
> 8^4, for example?
>
(I knew I'd screwed up..the equivalents in our system were wrong) _maq_
means "multiplied by itself (once)" so is equvalent to ^2; then
maq 2 is "mult. by itself twice" ie. ^3 and so on.

So to correct the original:
1000 maq = 1000^2 = 1 000 000
1000 maq 2 = _1000^3_ = 1 000 000 000 (US"billion")
1000 maq 3 = _1000^4_ = 1 000 000 000 000 (US trillion) and so on
(Hmm, handy mnemonic:  1000 followed by N groups of 3 zeros or "maq N" =
^N+1 in our system.  [Note to self: remember this in future])

And yes, 8 maq 4 works, but is 8^5 in our system:
8 maq = 64 (8^2)
8 maq 2 = 512 (8^3)
8 maq 3 = 4096
8 maq 4  = 32768 (8^5)