Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

At 02.34 p.m. 27.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I forgot the obconlang: Géarthnuns busts your chops in this regard:
[snip]

Oh god... That's much to hard. I like the nice simple system my last year's
science teacher uses. So much easier to turn words into figures when you
forget that there are words above a million, although it isn't as neat once
you get a few sigfigs.

                         0 - ziro
[skipping some boring stuff]
                 1 000 000 - one million
             1 000 000 000 - one thousand million
         1 000 000 000 000 - one million million
     1 000 000 000 000 000 - one thousand million million
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 - one million million million
1 001 159 787 025 795 154 - one million, one thousand, one hundred and
fifty-nine million, seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand and twenty-five
million, seven hundred and ninety-five thousand, one hundred and fifty four.

And it goes on in that same, predictable way.

Needlesstosay, my (base five) conlang Finnstek does it in a similar method
(except it treats them as compounds, thus avoiding the ugliness one you've
got a few sigfigs)). But I can't find the words for the numbers and am
hoping I haven't lost them last time I cleaned my hard drive out.

Also, how does one count in hexadecimal in English?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ay, bee, cee, dee,
ee, eff, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen!, nineteen, aiteen!!, ... eighty!, ... aity!! (etc.)?

But we do get a distinction between [t_dT] and /T/: eighth and aith.

Tristan

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