Re: Four things: Was: Comparison of philosophical languages
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 12:11 |
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Pavel Iosad scripsit:
> > ObOT: I've always loved the names of Smith's "Lords of the
> > Instrumentality
> > of Mankind":[...] Femtiosex ("fifteen six"?)
>
> Fifty-six in Swedish.
Ah. I recognized "femt-" from the metric prefixes, where "femto" = 10^-15.
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