Re: ConNumbers

Fabian scripsit:

> You forgot English, which has remnants of both base 20 and base 12 in the
> names of the numbers. 20 is shown in the teens, and base 12 in eleven and
> twelve, which are otherwise irregular, except in teh terms dozen and gross.
> Oh, and base 20 makes it again in 'score'.
I grant you dozen, gross, and score, but there is no base 20 in
X-teen, just sandhi phenomena.  (Hindi numbers work like this all the
way up to 99, but that does not make the system base-100.)
"Eleven" and "twelve" are "one left" (after ten) and "two left"
respectively; far from being base 12, they are quintessentially base 10.

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