tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 03 21:22:54 1998
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Re: numbers (was Re: jIchegh / more puns?)
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: numbers (was Re: jIchegh / more puns?)
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:23:39 -0400
>> 0 (zero) = nothing; the absence of something; void; ...
>> It is not a place holder as we use it here on earth.
>>
>> 0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 21, etc.
>
>Well, I do understand that you can have number systems without
>zero, so there is no "10", but if that is the case, then, well,
>there is no zero, so your counting can't start with that rather
>round character you began counting with...
>
>Meanwhile, Klingon does have a WORD for zero. Odd that
>they would not have a digit for it...
>
>charghwI'
Read it again. There is a zero. It just isn't used as a place holder.
I included it in that number line above because before you have something,
you have nothing.
pagh ghaj
wa' vInob
wa' ghaj
latlh vInob
cha' ghaj
latlh vInob
wej ghaj
The number 10 is not a [one] and a [zero]. It is a [one] and a [place holder].
DloraH