Michael Everson wrote:
> >And, by the way, do you know whether base-4 numbers have a special name?
>
> Tetradecimal, I suspect.
Arrgh, no. That would be base 14, and a bogus Greco-Latin hybrid to boot.
We already have a hybrid for base 16, which is bad enough.
Raymond Brown, former teacher of Classics, posted the following table on
Conlang:
FROM LATIN FROM LATIN FROM
RADIX DISTRIBUTIVES FRACTIONS GREEK
2 binary dimidial dyadic
3 ternary/trinary tertial triadic
4 quaternary quartal tetradic
5 quinary quintal pentadic
6 senary sextal hexadic
7 septenary septimal heptadic
8 octonary octaval octadic
9 novenary nonal enneadic
10 denary decimal decadic
11 undenary undecimal hendecadic
12 duodenary duodecimal dodecadic
. .... .... ....
16 senidenary sextadecimal heccaedecadic
20 vicenary vigesimal icosadic
'vicesimal' would be more correctly derived from Latin 'uicesima (pars)' =
1/20. But, tho my dictionary does give 'vicesimal' as an alternative to
'vigesimal', I fear the latter is too entrenched in the language now.
'heccaedecadic' would be /hEksIdI'k&dIk/ and spellt/ spelled 'heccedecadic'
in north America, I assume :)
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