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Re: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Friday, August 20, 2004, 18:33
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:20:01 +0200, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
wrote:

>I am confused. You say the Ayeri use a base-12 system, yet >you give the meanings of the larger numeral words >(_menea_, _mennim_ etc.) as `10^6', `10^9', etc. If you mean >powers of 12, you should write `12^6', `12^9', etc. >Anything else is misleading. You also should not use words >such as `hundred', `thousand', `million', etc. when referring >to powers of 12. They simply are not the same numbers.
Alright, I'll change that. I thought something like that would come.