On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:33:11 -0500, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
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.
Ah yes. Sandhi would make even a perfectly regular system complicated.
> > 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 forgot to mention that 32 and 40 are tied into the phonology: there are
32 distinct C/V possibilities in even moras and 40 in odd ones.
> 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.)
(Had to look up Just Intonation, having forgotten which one it was -- as a
mainly-wind-instrument guy I never paid too much attention to tuning
systems)
Jeff