Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

Danny Wier wrote:
> From: "Jeffrey Jones"
>
>> Didn't know that about Hindi. I suppose Sanskrit is no worse than Polish?
>
>
> I know little Sanskrit, but I think its number system is probably pretty
> complicated. A lot of it is probably due to those sandhi rules.
>
>> I'm considering an ordinary hum-drum base 1280 number system for one
>> of my
>> projects. This could be broken down into an alternation of base 32 and
>> base
>> 40.
>
>
> I was just contemplating base-840, which can be divided by all whole
> numbers
> from 1 to 8. Or base-2520, for 1 to 10. Then I just decided to stick with
> base-60, which can handle 1 through 6. At least for now.
>
> (All this work on Just Intonation is making me obsessed with prime
> numbers.)
>
Zariva could be considered base 125. Numbers below 125 use a combination
of either base 5 or base 7 or both (here's that link again):

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9902D&L=conlang&P=R1781

The basic roots cover 1-5, 7, 10, 15, 25, 49, and powers of 125. All
other numbers are combinations of these, with additional prefixes and
suffixes for "one less", "two less", "one more", "two more", and "twice".