| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 19, 2001, 8:14 |
At 09.36 a.m. 19.10.2001 +0200, you wrote:>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>: > > >Bases in languages > > >are the "root" numbers used to count. For instance, French uses both > > base > > >10 > > >and base 20 (for numbers until 16 and for numbers from 60 until 99).How is English, given the nature of 'eleven' and 'twelve'? Partially base twelve but normally decimal? Or am I misunderstanding the concept? Tristan
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