Re: Tiny Ini Update
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 21:47 |
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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.
Except that the radix of "decimal" is not "deci-", but "decim-". That
would make it "nonal" (or perhaps "noval"), analogous to "octal". The
fact that 9 in Latin is "novem" makes me think that it could also be
"novimal" - aargh!
Strangely, my Latin-Dutch dictionary doesn't have "novem" itself,
though the Dutch-Latin one does. There are some very interesting
things in its vicinity: for one, "noverca" meaning "stepmother,
step-grandmother, mother-in-law" :-)
> It could be "nonary" in analogy to
> "binary", but I don't think so. :-)
I like that!
Irina
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