Re: The biggest number you know in your conlang
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Friday, September 22, 2006, 12:12 |
Hi!
Remi Villatel writes:
> ... rati saçrukuro gea, be vire klidusē pra teo tsiju ? ...
I assume you mean the largest atomic lexicon entry for a number, since
otherwise most people would answer that there is none.
In all of my a priori conlangs except Fukhian, it is 16.
This makes the languages suitable for using any base between 2 and 16
for expressing numbers.
The number system has been criticised of being too scientific for the
man on the street, because it is essentially a*b^c (only in reversed
order and recursive in c), but I personally doubt it is more
complicated than the systems in common use in natlangs.
E.g. 300 = 2 10 3
4560 = 3 10 4 5 6
**Henrik