Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Nik Taylor scripsit:
> > Or Japanese (and, I believe, other east Asian
> languages) righting a
> > comma after every three digits, but naming numbers
> in groups of four,
> > saying, in essence, 1,0000 but writing 10,000.
>
> This I think *does* make life hard, at least on
> those rare occasions when one deals with large
> numbers like 1,0000,0000.
I can vouch for that, guys!  I work in a brokerage in
Japan, working all day with numbers in the millions
and billions -- even now, after years of it, I still
need to refer to my handy transversion chart for fear
that I'll err in what number I mean!  Not only
Japanese, though, but Thai and Korean use this system.
 I'd assume Chinese as well, although I don't know.

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...

For us, crazy-number-system haters, just base off 10!
:p

Matt33

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