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Re: Numbers and math

From:Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
Date:Saturday, September 23, 2000, 14:02
>From: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:11:24 +0200 > >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! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.