From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Sat Dec 09 00:14:03 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 9 Dec 2000 08:14:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 63530 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2000 08:14:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Dec 2000 08:14:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnd.internet-bg.net) (212.124.64.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 9 Dec 2000 08:14:00 -0000 Received: from math.bas.bg (ppp124.internet-bg.net [212.124.66.124]) by lnd.internet-bg.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA13652 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:17:40 +0200 Message-ID: <3A31E782.7A8E16EE@math.bas.bg> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 10:04:18 +0200 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Triple number References: <23.49a866e.276289d8@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski I don't really think anyone is likely to take seriously the stuff that got posted here when Pycyn left his keyboard unattended, but just in case: (1) all Eskimo-Aleut languages have unanalysable numerals up to 6 (7 and 8 are usually called 5+2 and 5+3, 9 is either 5+4 or 10-1), then for 10 and for 20, and all have base-10 or base-20 number systems, with no trace of base-3; (2) numbers large than 3 (especially 7, 100 and 1000) are mentioned in many Hungarian proverbs, idioms and the like, so it is hard to imagine how anyone, even a nobleman, can fail to have heard of them; (3) a trial number (in addition to singular, dual and plural) is a characteristic feature of the grammatical systems of the languages of Melanesia, Micronesia and New Guinea. --Ivan