Re: Types of numerals
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 19, 2006, 9:18 |
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staving Roger Mills:
>Then there's the little-used "symphonette" (I can think of only one
>offhand), which apparently has all the sections of the normal symphony
>orchestra, but in reduced numbers.
>
> > This is a sequence of increasing cardinality, where,
> > FAPP, "orchestra" = "too big to bother counting" ...
> > (or even "infinite" :-) ).
Interestingly enough, the only use I've heard of "symphonette" before is
"My story's infinite,
Like a Longines symphonette,
It doesn't rest..."
from "Birdhouse in your Soul" by They Might be Giants
Pete
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