Re: numbers as letters
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 15:30 |
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Hallo!
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:43:26 +0100, R A Brown wrote:
> [Leibniz's scheme]
>
> 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
I am planning to use just that kind of scheme in my experimental
arithmographic(*) language X-5. 20 consonants and 5 vowels give 100
CV syllables for a base-100 number representation.
(*) "Arithmographic" is my term for a system like what Leibniz proposed,
in which semantic primitives are represented by prime numbers and more
complex concepts by products of the primes.
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