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Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long]

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Monday, January 10, 2005, 16:57
Henrik Theiling wrote at 2005-01-08 22:56:07 (+0100)
 > Hi!
 >
 > I'd like to give the promised introduction to the number system of
 > Qthen|gai.
 >

I was just thinking about how numbers are going to work in LC-01, so I
was interested to see this.* It's a neat system.  I had to play around
on paper for a while to convince myself that there weren't any
ambiguous sequences - what with the recursive exponentiation and all -
but it looks like there aren't.

One question - if you're writing in, say, base 10, is 10 written "10"
or "10 1"?


* I was relieved to find that your system wasn't too similar to what
  I'd come up with. (Of course, LC-01's sytem might grow more or less
  similar to Qthen|gai's between now and the time when I'm ready to
  present it to the list.  Any ideas I have about the language are
  provisional until I have a working basis for a self-segregating
  morphology.)

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