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Re: Telona number system

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 5:54
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)