Re: [lojban] Does Lojban have an equivalent of 萬/만/万 (10 thousand)?

[Ilmen <ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com>]

On 25/10/2014 08:36, Zilong Lee wrote:

I'm a native Mandarin speaker. In East Asia, we have different number scales than the West, especially when the number gets bigger than 10 thousand, we use another word, namely '萬/万(wan4)' in Chinese, '만/萬(man)' in Korean and '万'(man) in Japanese(I'm not sure whether it exists in other East Asian languages like Vietnamese and Mongolian, etc.), instead of keeping using thousand. So to a Chinese/Korean/Japanese ear, '17 thousand' sounds very confusing. 

If Lojban is truly culturally neutral, I think we should have an equivalent word of 10-thousand. Is it already there? or that it has never been thought about?

您好!

Lojban numbers are represented with the positional notation: in base ten, the ten primary digits {no, pa, re, ci, vo, mu, xa, ze, bi, so} (= 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are enough for encoding any positive integer: 10 is {pa no}, 100 is {pa no no}, 1000 is {pa no no no}, and so on. As a result, there is no need for number words such as "hundred", "thousand", "billions" etc.

In Lojban, 万 is expressed as {pa no no no no}, or {pa se gei vo} (1×10^4, scientific notation).

It is also possible to specify the number base/radix by using the particle {ju'u}, which allows for example to express numbers in base two, base twelve, base sixteen etc.

mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o

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