Re: Types of numerals
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 5:49 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@M...>
wrote:
>IME, one distinguishes digits from numerals from numbers.
>A "digit" is a single symbol representing a numeric quantity whose
>value is dependent upon its location in a place-oriented
>representational system. So 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 are all
>digits.
That is what the AHD says. It doesn't include A-F, although I agree
that they would be numerals also. Senjecan has a vigesimal system,
so there would be 19 digits.
>A "numeral" is a symbolic representation of a number, which may
>comprise one or more digits or some non-digital mechanism.
AHD: "A symbol, such as a letter, figure, or word used alone or in a
group to denote a number." Letter: the Roman numerals, Greek
letters. Figure: 1, 2, 3, etc. Word: pi; would this include words
like "three"?
Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur
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