Different numbers in different languages
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Um, just in case anyone's still looking at this - finnish viisi works too. Throw in 'tri' in Czech (and in quite a few other Slavic languages). Re: numbers in different languages (Czech) How about supercalifragilisticexpialidociouspuzzler Note: In Hebrew, numbers are different when counting male / female objects. The work "five" (male) in Hebrew (Hamisha) has 5 Hebrw letters. The word "four" (female) in Hebrew (Arba) has 4 Hebrew letters. Which actually makes those strings self-descriptive! Nifty. Just to extend things, if you're counting strokes in kanji, and using "kaku" (the counter for the number of strokes in a kanji character), then ten through thirteen all work: Good lord, does anyone here not know Japanese? They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. If you use stroke counts, which would be a more common way to look at it in Japan, then one, two and three, all have the same number of strokes as their value. futatsu would also work if you use one kanji and one 'tsu' hiragana, for a total of 2 letters. Well, if you further nitpick you could use the "general" counters (numbers used when counting in a generic fashion) so mittsu would work (uses 3 hiragana in Japanese). In kanji, "ichi" (1) is the only one that works, since all numbers 1-9 use a single kanji. In hiragana, no numbers satisfy the same-number-of-characters-as-value criteria all the numbers 1-9 use two characters except for 2 and 5 (and sometimes 4) which use one. If you don't mind my being nitpicky, the Japanese "ni" and "san" don't really fit the condition because they'd be most commonly expressed in hiragana or kanji, two of the japanese alphabets. "vier" in German is the only other one I can think of (granted, I don't know the numbers in very many languages). Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Their value equals the number of letters they're spelled with. Some people are average, some are just mean. What do the following numbers have in common Topic: numbers in different languages (Read 1522 times) RIDDLES SITE WRITE MATH! Home Help Search Members Login RegisterĮasy (Moderators: SMQ, Grimbal, ThudnBlunder, william wu, Icarus, towr, Eigenray) « wu :: forums - numbers in different languages »
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I always thought that the low numbers have "special" numerals because they are used more commonly than bigger numbers but if this theory is right, than why was for example 15 historically used more commonly in the Romance languages than in the Germanic languages?Įdit: Added Romanian, Italian,Latin and Swedish for additional information.Wu :: forums - numbers in different languages Romanian, Italian and Latin all have unique numerals until 10, Swedish as a Germanic language works just like German and English. And after that they are formed in a more or less regular way. I've realized that diffent languages stop having "special" numerals for numbers somewhere between 12 and 16 (At least the languages i know). I've got a question that has been bothering me for quite some time maybe you guys here can answer it for me.