Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

Hi,

  <<
  And are the
  names for the numbers taken just out of thin air or do they have some
  source?
  >>

 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

Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:  Den 11. mar. 2007 kl. 09.42 skrev Joseph Fatula:

> I suppose I might as well give you the whole list.  This is in the
> original language, before any sound changes.
>
> 1 - ba
> 2 - ru
> 3 - wec
> 5 - say
> 8 - ngel
> 13 - cef
> 21 - bor
> 34 - mål
> 55 - con
> 89 - yuc
> 144 - may
> 233 - vel
> 377 - csur
> 610 - ång
> 987 - cnew
> 1597 - tes
I like this and it works. If I understand it right, 313 is
velconborsayru, 2048 is tescsurconborngel. Did you do much
experimenting to see how they would combine, or what? And are the
names for the numbers taken just out of thin air or do they have some
source?

LEF



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