Friday, August 5, 2016

English Names for dozenal numbers (revised)

I talked about this before in a previous blog post, but since then, I changed some things.

Here is my system of naming numbers.

The System

1 through nine are, of coarse, the same, but X; is pronounced "ten", and E; is pronounced "el".

10; is pronounced "zen", rather than "doh".

I created a "zeen" system for 11;-1E;, similar to "teen"

11; is "onezeen"

12; is "twozeen"

13; is "threezeen"

14; is "fourzeen"

...

for 20;-90;, it uses the current decimal notation, except you replace "-ty" with "-zen", though it does have a few differences.

therefore

20; = "twenzen"

30; = "thirzen"

40; = "forzen"

50; = "fivzen"

60; = "sixzen"

70; = "sevzen"

80; = "eightzen"

90; = "ninezen"

X0; = "teenzen" (in Old English, 100 (decimal) was "teenty")

E0; = "elzen"

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 "zen 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


Dozenal Places

Officially, you say it similar to decimal, so 0;01 is officially "one dunith".

The semicolon seperator is called a dosc (dozenal simicolon), so it would unofficially be "zero dosc O one" or "zero dosc zero one".

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 thirzen-four trin, five duna, and sixzen-seven".

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