Re: numbers systems from your conlangs
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 1:31 |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:38:12 -0700, janko gorenc <j_gorenc@...>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to thank to all conlangers, which had sended me yours numbers from your conlangs.
>I must say that I collect the numbers which are using less than 10 for their
>base (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), and those which areusing more than 10 (11, 12,
>13, 14, 15, 16,....).
>For example:
>Math:
>1-a
>2-he
>3-oj
>4-uth
>5-if
>6-a véi lil uth
>7-a véi lil oj
>8-a véi lil he
>9-a véi lil a,
>10-a véi.
You might find the Zariva numbers interesting. I posted about them to the
list back in 1999. Zariva uses a combination of base 5 and base 7, which
interact in complicated ways (although higher numbers are mainly base 5).
Here's a link to the list archive:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9902D&L=conlang&P=R1781