Re: Con-other
| From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2008, 2:20 |
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Keith Bertelsen wrote:
>With my pet conlang in the last half of high school, I ended up developing
>the mathematical notation (they used hexadecimal!) system long before I
>even had a functional grammar.
>
>I showed it to one of my math teachers, and she was like "Huh?", and
>totally didn't understand what I had done, or how I had sixteen numbers.
>That was about the point where I stopped paying attention in class.
>
That's really sad. Shame on her!! My education in math wasn't the greatest;
I guess by high school I'd heard of duodecimal, but had no idea how you
worked in it. Then in the 60s, at my second try at college, one of the
required courses was "Intro to Math"-- Morris Kline's "New Math" was the fad
then, and it turned out to be a fascinating course. At least I still
remember our other base systems work and why...:-))) though the various
converters online help out.
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