Teens and Twenties

[piet lincoln]

Dear Richard Parker,

some suggestions:

The systems of most of Oceania are decimal.   Check on words for powers 
of  ten:   100     1000, 10000....

The Proto Oceanic  has terms for one through ten, so those Oceanic 
systems with paraphrase for 6,7,8,9, are innovative.

But the system is still decimal.  (POc * Ratus 100).

A real base five system would have words for powers of  five:  25, 125, 
625 ...

A real base twenty system would have words for powers of twenty:  400,  
8000,  160000 ...


Keep reading Glen Lean.  He's got a lot right.

cheers,

Piet Lincoln



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