Re: The biggest number you know in your conlang

Remi Villatel wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I was looking through my conlang files. I found a file I was absolutely sure
> that I had lost or destroyed it. It was about the very large numbers. So I
> retrieved the largest shaquean number. As far as I know, it's /xotji-gēç/
> [Zo.tji:gEC], or in other words 12^(12^12). You write it as 1 followed by
> over 9800 billions zeroes (in base 12). As far as you know, what is the
> largest numbers in your conlang?
In Lindiga (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Lindiga/numbers.html):
99,999,999. The largest basic root word is rtlyrsi (10,000), and you can
have up to 9,999 of those. The numbers start getting really cumbersome,
though!

12,345,678 = rtlyrsi vrlengi kotti ai kie, sirli ai kiemiti, vrlengi
issi ai kienguorsi, pasi ai kiechaski (tenthousand hundred two and ten,
four and thirty, hundred six and fifty, eight and seventy).

Minza numbers are borrowed from Lindiga, adapted to Minza phonology and
spelling: šei, koči, miči, širi, ňuoži, iši, xaski, paži, yki, kie.
However, Minza also has duodecimal numbers borrowed from Tirelat, and
the largest of these is xamari (20,736). So using the duodecimal numbers
I could theoretically count up to 429,981,695. Minza additionally has
words borrowed from the SI prefixes, the highest of which is ġiota (from
yotta-), which represents 10^24.

Tirelat itself has words for numbers up to 12^52 (approx. 1.31 · 10^56).
The extra-high numbers are expressed by using the infix -za- in
combination with one of the basic number words:

xamaari = 20,736
xamaazari = 429,981,696
xamaazadłaari = 8,916,100,448,256 (dłaa = two)
xamaazakimri = 12^16 (kim = three)
and so on, up to xamaazakažri = 12^52 (kaž = twelve).