Sunday, June 26, 2016

English Names for dozenal numbers

There are just too many naming schemes for dozenal numbers.

Problems with current schemes are either:
1. They are hard to learn
2. They sound pretty stupid

I came up with a naming scheme that might actually work.

It is based off the one from TGM, but slightly modified.

It is designed, not really to be shorter, but easier to learn among most people, because it is structurally the same as the periods of three based counting system that most languages share.

The System

1 through nine are, of coarse, the same, but *X is pronounced "ten", and *E is pronounced "eleven", like they already are in decimal.

*10 is pronounced either "dozen", or "one dozen", instead or "zen" or "doh", because the dozen is a pretty common quantity.

*11 is "one dozen one"

*47 is "four dozen seven"

*100 is called "one duna" (from TGM), instead of "one gross" because
1. Grosses aren't common
2. "duna" sounds better

*1,000 is "one trin" (from TGM)

TGM calls *10,000 "quedra", but my system calls it "one dozen trin", because it is structurally similar to the decimal "ten thousand".
*100,000 is "one duna trin".

*1,000,000 is "one dillion" (short for "dozenal million")

*1,000,000,000 is not "one billion", but "one bidillion" (well, because "billion" is decimal).

You can always generate new dillions using systematic dozenal nomenclature

Comparison with decimal

So, lets say the number "1,234,567".

If read as a decimal value, it would be "one million, two hundred and thirty four thousand, five hundred and sixty seven".

If read using my dozenal English naming scheme, it would be "one dillion, two duna and three dozen four trin, five duna, and six dozen seven".

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