Re: numbers as letters
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 16:32 |
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> > 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.
OK, so ba = 00 and zu = 99. Given that 05 is ca, I assume that 01
through 04 are be, bi, bo, bu. Since there are 21 consonant letters,
one must be skipped to arrive at Z for 95-99. I would have expected C
to be the one skipped, but evidently not. So which is? J?
> Hmmm. I came up with exactly this myself in the past two years.
Yeah, I'm constantly finding precedents for my own original brilliant
ideas. Humbling, ain't it?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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