Re: Numbers and math
| From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 23, 2000, 14:02 |
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>From: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:11:24 +0200
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>A classic question is: how do you count to ten in your conlang?
Well, Graavgaaln is base twelve, so . . .
one - vrraa
two - jegh
three - droz
four - gizh
five - nu:u:v
six - ka*
seven - trro/o/ng
eight - lli^v
nine - rogh
ten - laaz
eleven - ni^rv
twelve - breeng
144 - zhvogh
1728 - duum
20736 - jhuurn
248832 - kriiz
2985832- tlu:u:d,
35831808 - yaam
429981696 - nendraag
5159780352 - n~ev
61917367824 -shy:zh
743008413888 - chaav
8916100966656 -khil
>Generalizing:
> - do you form ordinals from cardinals? how? if not, how?
add the suffix -ji to the cardinal
> - do you have a zero?
zhdenggh
> - can numbers be negative?
They can, but I haven't learned how yet.
> - fractions? percentiles? if it's not a decimal system, is there
> something instead of percentiles?
> - how do you add, subtract, multiply and divide? (if you know how)
> - what about raising to the nth power and n-roots?
>
As a math-phobe you should be glad I know the word for 8916100966656!!! But
all these and more MUST be possible in the lang. The Graavguurdaan are
space-faring!
>I think I'll stop there but you get the idea :)
Yup. I need to work on Graavgaaln mathmatical terms!
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