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Re: Numbers and math

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, September 22, 2000, 3:15
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 -- languages of Azir------> -<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/languages.html>- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin