Re: specialized numbers

In a message dated 19.12.2001 12:06:48 AM, bronto@POBOX.COM writes:

>Do any of you have two or more sets of numbers, used in different
>contexts?  I have in mind the Japanese native series (hi hu mi yo)
>beside the Chinese imports (iti ni san si), and the Lincolnshire Celtic
>sheep-counting doggerel (yan tan tethera pethera pimp).
>
    I have been thinkin' of having 2 sets of numbers in Lego: everyday usage
and "techno-scientific." <More info to come when I unleash Lego on the list
::cue melodramatic music & sound efx of a mad scientist laughing and
snickering::>

J. Y. S. Chang

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