Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Tiny Ini Update

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 21:36
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:03:09PM -0400, nicole perrin wrote:
[snip]
> 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. T