Re: Types of numerals; bases in natlangs.

On 1/14/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
>
> There's also the yet more efficient Knuth's Extended Myriadic system, which
> is strictly base 10 but new words for powers of 10 are added only when
> unavoidable. That is, 10^3 is just ten hundreds and doesn't need a name on
> its own; 10^4 is myriad, 10^8 myllion, and then 10^16 either byllion (short
> count) or mylliard (long count)
What constitutes "unavoidability" for a new word?  It seems like you
could go on indefinitely with ten, ten tens, ten tens of tens, ten
tens of tens of tens, etc.
.
> See http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/math/largenum.html (near the bottom
> of the page)
>
> (The page should prove otherwise interesting, too.)
>
> John Vertical
>

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