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Re: Numbers and math

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, September 23, 2000, 1:19
Ooops.
Well, we _are_ mathematically challenged:
>'Half', however, is angunjo 'division'-- ro (i) angunjo 'two and a half'
but
>written .5 or 5/oo
^^^^ That should be 50/oo. And again:
>That apparently is true of Gwr: chih ma kong (lit. 1000 vast 4, ie
1000 to the fourth power)= quadrillion 10^15; No, dear, trillion, 1000^4 (i.e. 10^12); quadrillion (10^15) is chih ma dzi 1000^5