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The first multi-syllabic positive integer
This puzzle is not about linguistics, but I do not see a better place for this question.
Suppose N(L) is the first multi-syllabic positive integer in the given language L.
So
N(Russian) = N(Hebrew) = ...
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Do any languages mention the top limit of a range first?
In many languages we usually say "between min and max" (e.g., grades "between 1 and 10").
Are there any languages where the reverse construction ("between max and min", e.g. grades "between 10 and 1")...
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Are there any languages with words for negative powers of 10 like Japanese?
In Japanese they use 分, 厘, 毛, 糸, 忽, 微, 繊, 沙, 塵, 埃 for negative powers of 10 from 10-1 to 10-10 respectively
There's also another system with a little bit different value range
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Is there any language with number system that uses subtraction? (Other than Ainu)
Generally all number systems use addition or multiplication to express numbers like - '12*3 + 6 for 42 in a base 12 system', '2 on the way to 50' or 'even 10+10+10+10+2 in some'. But, are there number ...
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Are there any languages where numbers have cases?
Are there any languages which use different cases of numbers for different uses?
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Is there a language that begins range expressions with the higher/later datum?
If someone were to say
There were between twenty and ten people at the event.
or
I will be there from the fifth to the second of July.
that person would sound strange indeed, because in English ...
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Languages where numbers are read out in a mixed-up fashion
The German number system has the peculiarity that the ones are read out before the tens. For example:
634542 = Sechshundertvierunddreißigtausendfünfhundertvzweiundvierzig
= "six hundred four-...
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In what languages do eleven start with /b/ and fourteen start with /e/? [closed]
How do I find a foreign word for a number that starts with a given sound?
I'm writing an article about what English might look like if its numerals were in hexadecimal (base sixteen). For this, I ...
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Word for eighteen expressed as Twenty Minus Two
Other than Latin, are there any languages that have a word for the number 18 that means twenty minus two?
A quick glance at some of the numeral systems of languages in the Indo-European reveal that ...
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Which modern, spoken languages do not use the decimal number system?
Rationale: While writing a document about foundations of computer science and describing that a number is a sequence of digits, I was wondering about our relation to the decimal system.
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