From bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk Sat Nov 10 07:00:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 10 Nov 2001 15:00:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 57251 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2001 15:00:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Nov 2001 15:00:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n7.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.57) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2001 15:00:32 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk Received: from [10.1.10.120] by n7.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Nov 2001 15:00:32 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:00:32 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: bases [was: Re: [lojban] Re:HEX advert... (Don't know what it was) Message-ID: <9sjfeg+c77v@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 697 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 62.64.191.187 From: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk X-Yahoo-Profile: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour --- In lojban@y..., And Rosta wrote: > I could point out, btw, that by your reasoning it could be argued that > English is default base 13, given that digits 1-12 are noncompositional. Just because English has the words 'ten', 'eleven', and 'twelve' are not respectively 'onety', 'oneteen', and 'twoteen' does not mean English uses base 13 by any stretch, any more than 'thirteen' not being 'threeteen', 'fifteen' not being 'fiveteen', or 'twenty' not being 'twoty' means anything about the base English uses. All these are plainly irregularities. > (BTW, I favour duodecimal for cardinal numbers & sexagesimal for > fractions.) But why? Sincerely, Robert