Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 18:04 |
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Frank Valoczy wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > > Nice tool! I'm gonna keep it (the Sky People count in base 7 and 8)
> >
> > Very useful indeed! The only drawback is that it only goes to base 16,
> > so it's not helpful if you use base 20. :-(
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> > --
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>never mind if you want to use Sumerian base 60...
Speaking of bases, I assume that those languages that only have words for
numbers up to three or so don't use any base at all. Now, does anyone know
what the highest named number is among langs that don't use bases?
Andreas
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