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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
Date:Saturday, October 27, 2001, 8:29
--- 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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