Re: The Sand Reckoner in Your ‘Langs
From: | Roger Mills <romiltz@...> |
Date: | Monday, April 6, 2009, 23:37 |
Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> Thank you, Michael Poxon, Kelvin Jackson, Alex Fink, Roger
> Mills, Mechthild
> Czapp, and Veoler.
> Roger, Gwr and Kash are also, roughly, translations of the
> systems we normally use; would you agree?
Yes, guilty as charged....And Prevli is too, since they're base 10 now (evidence
of quinary in the past); but before the Kash arrived, the largest number term they
had was 1000 (nobliSti < nôm '10', lisit '100'), and they didn't (apparently need
to) count beyond 99,999.