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Re: BoP-Daq, CK-Daq joq mI'mey Huj noblu'bogh

Lieven L. Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: BoP-Daq, CK-Daq joq mI'mey Huj noblu'bogh
• Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:55:36 +0200
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Am Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:51:08 EDT hat <[email protected]> 
geschrieben:

> numbers.  But if taken literally it looks like it should equal 300 + 70 + 
> 5000, or 5370.

My personal opinion maybe:
You can do no mistake if you always use the "correct" number-suffix in the 
correct order:

x 10		-maH
x 100		-vatlh
x 1,000	-SaD
x 10,000	-netlh
x 100,000	-bIp
x 1,000,000	-'uy'

This is very easy, even to make huge numbers:
375.124 = 3bIp, 7netlh, 5SaD, 1vatlh, 2maH, 4

> This sort of bias also occurs on CK in the context of telling time:

IIRC, time is told like in military, i.e. from 0000-2359 hours, while they 
are read apparently in hundreds: twelve hundred hours...
It seems clear to me, cause like this it's easier to see what time you're 
talking about: "14 hundred 30" (14:30) instead of "1 thousand 4 hundred 30"

> we don't have number-forming elements greater than million.

Many terrans do that also, not knowing the word after million - Or do you 
know what comes after 1000 Megabyte? ;-)

Quvar.

(PS: i'm just kidding, not saying that anyone is stupid)

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