Re: The Sand Reckoner in Your ‘Langs

Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> Veoluur, Waltuur's system is a successive-squaring system using base six, and
> going from 6 up to 6^16 ( sa' in Waltuur ), right?
Yes.


> But I have a question about
> <http://veoler.googlepages.com/collcon_lexicon.html#num>
> ; if the speakers are illiterate why do they have words for pi (hug) and the
> square-root of two (hii)?  What happened to make many of them need these
> words before many of them needed to write anything down?
When manufacturing wheels and managing square-shaped fields of corn?

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Veoler