[Tlhingan-hol] do any human cultures count like Klingons do?
De'vID
de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 03:18:49 PDT 2014
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Anthony Appleyard
<a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> The Mexican Nahuatl language's numbers count 20-adic.
chay' ngoDqoq vI'ollaH? Hal cho'anglaH'a'?
AFAICT it seems they use a base 20 or vigesimal system, and not a
20-adic one. Do you have a source that shows otherwise?
According to "An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl" by Michel Launey,
in Nahuatl the numbers 40 and 60 are expressed as 2*20 and 3*20:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NvThNb2wmUcC&lpg=PA257&ots=3hLQ_dmBGX&pg=PA256
In a 20-adic notation, these would be 20+20 and 2*20+20.
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De'vID
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