Re: Numbers and math
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 22, 2000, 3:15 |
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:11:24 +0200, taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin@...> wrote:
>A classic question is: how do you count to ten in your conlang?
>Generalizing:
> - do you form ordinals from cardinals? how? if not, how?
> - do you have a zero?
> - can numbers be negative?
> - 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?
Tirehlat is still not fully developed, but I have the answers to some of
these quesitons.
1-12: li, dla, kiem, rega, vaki, zem, telif, siut, lagu, nidi, fozha, kazh.
Zero: mu.
Ordinals are formed by adding -ma.
Tirehlat is duodecimal. Higher powers of 12:
144 yovazh
1,728 gahrzi
20,736 xmari
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