Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From: "Yoon Ha Lee"

> Yes--Korean does that too.  My mom and I, when we're discussing numbers in
> Korean, always have to sit there and think about commas vs. number names.
> It's quite aggravating.  In Korean I'd rather have commas after every
> *four* digits, to match the language.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, I saw Asians counting backwards from the
units column to determine what number they were looking at. Not especially
convenient.

Kou