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jansegers
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tenpo sike sin pona !

Post by jansegers »

tenpo sike 2016 [tu mila luka luka luka wan] la o kama jo e wile ale sina !

mi wile e nanpa suli 'luka en noka' (20), 'kento' (100) en 'mila' (1000).

mi kama jo e tenpo sike 44 (tu luka en noka tu tu).

mi jo e lipu mute pi nimi 850 (luka tu wan kento tu luka en noka luka luka).

jan lon ma li nanpa 7 400 000 000 (luka tu mila tu tu kento mila mila).

nanpa Pi li 3,1415 (tu wan en nanpa wan nanpa tu tu nanpa wan nanpa luka)

80% of the Dutch people knows English : tu tu luka en noka pi jan Netelen li sona e toki Inli.

['noka en luka' (20) , 'kento' (100) and 'mila' would be multipliable; in any case we would be able to read years aloud, which was still a problem with the latest 'pu' system that only provided 'mute' (20) en 'ale' (100), which had to be added not multiplied to form bigger numbers]
janKipo
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Re: tenpo sike sin pona !

Post by janKipo »

An odd command "Get all you want" Better as an optative, "May you get what you desire" 'o siina kama jo e wile sina ali'
We many (not, by any means, all) want big numbers and, more directly, a way of using numbers as names and addresses. Too many proposals just try to get bigger totals but do nothing for the numbers that pervade modern culture: telephone numbers, PINs, street addresses, credit card numbers, security codes and so on, for none of which is an additive (or additive and multi[licative, for that matter) system adequate. We just need digits, 0-9. And then maybe place notation.
These are hard to parse, especially 'luka en noka' which is already complex. I suggest 'sijelo' instead. For the others, tp habitually puts quantities after the head, so I would expect 'sijelo tu, tu tu' (this obviously creates other problems), 'kento luka tu wan sijelo tu luka luka' (not a problem because 'luka' has to come before 'tu' in simple numbers), 'mila mila mila luka tu kento tu tu' (with problems between addition and multiplication and also of grouping).
'en' for the decimal point makes sense, but I am not sure just how to interpret the 'nanpa' s thereafter. It does seem to be getting toward the idea of place notation, however.
There are a host of nanpa suli proposals in the jan nasa section of the forum and in the archives.
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