Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

How many roots did you actually come up with to get "cnew" for 987?
I'm not that mathematically inclined myself haha.

Eugene

2007/3/11, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>:
> Eugene Oh wrote:
> > That's a really interesting number system you've got there, Joseph --
> > what made you decide to construct it this way? To put it another way,
> > wouldn't the language's speakers find it hard to count, since the
> > Fibonacci series isn't all that intuitive?
> >
> > Eugene
> While the Fibonacci series may be easy to construct, you're absolutely
> right - it's not the way we think about numbers.  As you can see, the
> Fibonacci-based number system of the ancestral language has given way to
> a 10-based number system in its descendant.  The point of this project
> (well, one of the points anyway) is to take an alien language (alien
> might not be the right word - let's say "non-human") and have it change
> as humans begin adopting the language.  I was trying to think of a
> radically different way to count, something that would work, but would
> not be done in natural languages.
>
> Joe
>

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