Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long]
| From: | kcasada <kcasada@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 14:38 |
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Ray,
I am told by them that know better (being BAD at decimals myself) that a
number such as 9.54 would be written 9,54 (except that the comma is
"backwards") and read "nine fasilah four and fifty" where "fasilah" is the
word for the backwards comma. I then asked whether a person could actually say
something closer to "fifty-four hundredths," and was told that you COULD say
"fasilah four and fifty from a hundred" but "Nobody ever does that."
Go figure. I love this language.
Krista
>And how is the decimal point handled in real Arabic notation?
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>Ray
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