Re: Types of numerals

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 tomhchappell wrote:

[snip]

> >>>>> AFAIK, only reciprocals (half, third,
> >>>> quarter...) and exponents of the base number
> >>>> (ten, hundred, thousand...) are lexical anywhere.
> >> What about English pair, dozen, score, gross?
> > They don't exactly suggest any further series of numbers to me - I
> > wasn't talking about the lexicality of _numbers_, but the
> > lexicality of _series_.
>
> Aha.  You're right, that makes a difference.
> None of my examples are part of a _sequence_.
Hmmm.  How do you like these names of musical groups
of increasing size?:

 . solo
 . duet
 . trio
 . quartet
 . quintet
 . sextet
 . septet
 . octet
...
 . orchestra!

This is a sequence of increasing cardinality, where,
FAPP, "orchestra" = "too big to bother counting" ...
(or even "infinite" :-) ).

Regards,
Yahya

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