Re: Tiny Ini Update

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:03:09PM -0400, nicole perrin wrote:
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> Anyway, I have a question about Ini's new feature.  What do you call a
> base nine system?  (You know, along the lines of binary & decimal)  And
> what do you call systems with other bases?  And, ObConlang, whose
> conlangs use number systems with weird bases?
I think a base-9 system is called "nonimal"... but I could be wrong, since
I'm just extrapolating from the fact that "decimal" is "deci-" (10) and
"-mal", and "noni-" is the radix for 9. It could be "nonary" in analogy to
"binary", but I don't think so. :-)

And talking about conlangs with weird number bases... I'm starting a
conlang which will probably use a base-3 or base-9 numbering system (not
sure yet). The reason I chose 3 or 9 isn't arbitrary either... it's a
principal part in the philosophy of the culture behind the language.


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