Re: Tiny Ini Update
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 22:42 |
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:59:50 +0200 daniel andreasson
<daniel.andreasson@...> writes:
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> So what's a base-3 system called? Trial? It sure would
> be one for my brain at least... :)
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> Oh, I just read John Cowan's post. Triadic. I like that.
>
> Daniel
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In David Brin's _Five Galaxies_ books, the sentient dolphins speak a
language called "Trinary" - it might have 3 phonemes, or the name might
be because it predominantly forms utterances into poetic triplets.
-Stephen (Steg)
"verbing weirds language." ~ calvin (& hobbes)