Re: The biggest number you know in your conlang
| From: | Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 22, 2006, 15:17 |
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:56:00 +0200, Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:
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>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?
>See you soon,
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>Remi Villatel
>maxilys_@_tele2.fr
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I fear I have not actually created the number vocabulary yet.
But I plan for it to be base-twelve (subbase four)[*]; and I plan for the
largest finite integer that can be explicitly expressed to be just less
than yours, namely,
(12^(12^12))-1.
The system will basically be:
base twelve up to (twelve ^ twelve) -1;
then base (twelve ^ twelve) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^2))-1;
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^2)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^3))-1;
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^3)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^4))-1;
...
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^8)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^9))-1;
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^9)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^ten))-1;
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^ten)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^eleven))-1;
then base (twelve ^ (twelve^eleven)) up to (twelve ^ (twelve^twelve))-1.
[*] "subbase four" means it will be base four up to eleven.
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eldin