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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:laokou <laokou@...>
Date:Saturday, October 27, 2001, 18:27
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