Re: Numbers
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 16, 2000, 14:26 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> But you could pull something like English or German, starting everything
> over at ten (eight nine ten eleven twelve, but twenty-eight twenty-nine
> thirty thirty-one thirty-two... "fifty-twelve" for sixty-two is weird, but
> not as weird as "forty-twenty-two"?)
A base 12 system would say "five-twelves and two" for 62
As for English and German, eleven and twelve come from roots meaning
"one left" and "two left", that is, "one more than ten" and "two more
than ten".
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