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Re: numbers as letters

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 20:27
In a message dated 5/8/2007 11:45:46 AM Central Daylight Time,
ray@CAROLANDRAY.PLUS.COM writes:


> A more interesting system IMO was proposed by G. de Kolvorat in 1927 in > which all the numbers from 00 through to 99 are represented by a single > CV syllable, beginning with _ba_ = 00 and ending with _zu_ = 99. To > express any number you just break it up into groups of two (prefixing a > leading zero if necessary) and spell it out, e.g. > 164750 --> 16-47-50 = femina > 50462 --> 05-04-62 = caburi >
Hmmm. I came up with exactly this myself in the past two years. stevo </HTML>

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