Re: Possible base-20 numeric system
| From: | Rodlox <rodlox@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 28, 2004, 11:29 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: Possible base-20 numeric system
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:33:11 -0500, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
> wrote:
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> > 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.
why's that?