Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

On 3/11/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Joseph Fatula wrote:
> > The real work wasn't in making these numbers, it was in fiddling with
> > dozens of ideas for number systems.  This one isn't the first one I
> > tried.
> A year or two back, someone (was it you?) produced a system that involved
> IIRC prime numbers....Fascinating-- this system is, too.
The original gzb number system (1998-2002) was based
exclusively on primes, and the current number system
still makes extensive use of compounding prime-number
morphemes to get most number words up to about 20.
In early 2002 I added morphemes for 10, 100, 10000
and for 16, 16^2 and 16^4, and discarded the root
words for larger primes which I had never really learned
to use, after finally deciding that I couldn't learn the
language fluently with a purely prime-based number system.

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/semantic.htm#section2

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Jim Henry