Re: Types of numerals

On 1/2/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> First off, I confess that I not sure if you'll recognize "numeral" as a word
> for the class of "number words" (never seen it used in that way in English;
> only Finnish.) If it actually is something else instead, do tell.
I've never seen it used that way in English, either.  But I don't know
of another English word for what you describe; I just call them
"number words".  As far as I know, the English "numeral" is reserved
for non-word representations of numbers.

Which are therefore what I thought your mail was about when I saw the
subject ilne.  I figured you were going to talk about different
numeral systems, like the Greek/Hebrew vs Roman style alphabetic-based
ones, the Arabic and Indic place-value systems with distinct glyphs,
etc. :)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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