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by Cvi
Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:24 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

I like your proposal. I only think, that in real speach it would naturally contract to luala, luwan, lutu for example 1937 = "wan lupo tu lutu" actually much and nicer than "one thousand nine hundred thirty seven"
by Cvi
Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:41 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

About base 20 and 60 you are right - the problem remains.
About 5 - it would have to be either luka (in spite of the bequinary origin of the proposed system) or lukala. I would interpret luka ala as 50
by Cvi
Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

OK - I only meant that with biquinary we can just leave the decimal cifers as they are, and they have the accepted value. If I read 100 as wan ala ala and use hexadecimal - I won't be quite sure if I meant 100 or 256. As you see in my example, I would propose a slightly modified biquinary system. Th...
by Cvi
Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:09 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

I personally am a fan of duodecimal numbers, which have the advantages of hex but deal well with thirds also, a practical advantage. Both of these (and vingesimal, tregesimal and sexagesimal, too) contain the decimal and so solve naming problem. I don't understand what you mean by "both of the...
by Cvi
Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:44 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

It is true that a decimal (or hexadecimal, octal or whatever) is better for large numbers, and for telephone numbers, SSNs, PINs, addresses we would need decimal numbers anyway. I shall try to find in facebook the proposals. I proposed the trinary system as a solution for things like "I am 77 y...
by Cvi
Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:24 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

mi pali e nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/I created a way to count in toki pona: ni li tan toki Nijon/This comes from the Japanese language 10=luka luka 20=mute 40=tu mute(2*20) 50=tu mute luka luka(2*20+5+5) 100= ali 200= tu ali 1 000= luka luka ali 2 000= mute ali 10 000= ali ali 100 000=luka luka ...
by Cvi
Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:19 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona
Replies: 40
Views: 28425

Re: nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/How to count in toki pona

mi pali e nasin nanpa kepeken toki pona/I created a way to count in toki pona: ni li tan toki Nijon/This comes from the Japanese language 10=luka luka 20=mute 40=tu mute(2*20) 50=tu mute luka luka(2*20+5+5) 100= ali 200= tu ali 1 000= luka luka ali 2 000= mute ali 10 000= ali ali 100 000=luka luka ...
by Cvi
Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:19 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Teaching small children
Replies: 5
Views: 5895

Re: Teaching small children

If it was a group of children that already know the latin letters (I live in Israel, they learn first the Hebrew letters) - I would rather teach Esperanto. The question is about small children. I thought that maybe they can learn easily the few words, and that maybe they can also adapt easily to the...
by Cvi
Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:45 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Teaching small children
Replies: 5
Views: 5895

Teaching small children

Did anyone try teaching small children (like 3-4 year old)? I mean in a group, not my own children.
If so - what were the results?
If not - is it worth trying?