Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From: "SuomenkieliMaa"

> I can vouch for that, guys!  I work in a brokerage in
> Japan, working all day with numbers in the millions
> and billions  Not only
> Japanese, though, but Thai and Korean use this system.
>  I'd assume Chinese as well, although I don't know.
Yes.

> Reference (Japanese)
> 1 - ichi (one)
> 10 - jyuu (ten)
> 100 - hyaku (hundred)
> 1,000 - sen (thousand)
> 10,000 - man (TEN thousand!)
> 100,000 - jyuuman (HUNDRED thousand!)
> 1,000,000 - hyakuman (ONE million!)
> 10,000,000 - [ichi]oku (TEN million!)
> 100,000,000 - jyuuoku (HUNDRED million!)
> 1,000,000,000 - hyakuoku (ONE billion!)
>
> *I hope I didn't err -- numbers are not my forte, and
> I may have as I'm not checking this...
You erred -- by skipping one.

ten million is: senman (a thousand ten thousands), so:

10,000,000 senman
100,000,000 oku
1,000,000,000 jyuuoku
10,000,000,000 hyakuoku
100,000,000,000 sen'oku (see, I learned my lesson about the apostrophes
)  )
1,000,000,000,000  (now in Japanese, I don't know, but in Mandarin this is
"yi1zhao4", my Japanese equivalency dictionary is at school; it's also a
character for "omen"; "chyoo"? "jyoo"?) (I did hear the word "kei" bandied
about in Japanese [using the character for "capital", as in "Tookyoo" no
"kyoo"], but I don't recall if that was for a trillion or ten quadrillion.
People start developing facial ticks when you talk numbers that high).

Kou