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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