Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 3/12/2007 7:27:46 PM Central Daylight Time,
> leon_math@YAHOO.COM writes:
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>>   <<
>>   And are the
>>   names for the numbers taken just out of thin air or do they have some
>>   source?
>>   >>
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>>   It's the old Fibonacci Series, familiar to any mathematics buff (like
>> me). Have you noticed that each number is the sum of the previous two  numbers?
>> Take a look at http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html
>>
>>   -Leon
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> But where do the the names of the numbers come from?
>
> stevo
>
The names are pretty much made up out of thin air.  They fit the
phonotactics for the language as a whole, but don't have any other
meaning.  Kind of like one through ten in English, they're just fundamental.