#Counting

[danskjavlarna]

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Apples (some giant, some bobbed for, at least one "bad" variety) have been picked for you in this gallery of vintage apple imagery.

[linguisticdiscovery]

Inuit schoolchildren invented a new number system, and now it's on the web

A group of Inuit middle schoolers invented a new number system that better fits their language (Iñupiaq), and now Unicode has adopted these symbols, meaning they can be used for typing, in apps, and on the web.

[noctumsolis]

I've said elsewhere that I reject the idea that counting arises from the fingers.

People often say that base 10 is the obvious choice because we have 10 fingers. Then people come up with other ways of counting fingers to explain away other number systems like the ancient mesopotamian system ("well its because they were counting on individual phalanges!")

As of yesterday I have a new example to undermine the counting-from-fingers idea.

Because if you want a really practical way of counting on your fingers and which will correlate to written numbers, you want base 6.

0..5 on the units hand.

6¹..6⁵ on the sixes hand.

Counts all the way up to 35 and the numbers (digits) you'd write down match 1:1 with your fingers (digits).

If counting arose from the fingers, where's base 6?

EDIT:

I made a silly notation error in the above. Since there are already reblogs I'm not going to change the error, but I feel it needs to be acknowledged.

I wrote 6¹..6⁵ when what I meant was 6×1..6×5.

I'd got distracted by tangential thoughts.

[dabiconcordia]

Nineteen Birds

Nineteen birds and one bird more, Just make twenty, and that's a score.

To the score then add but one; That will make just twenty-one.

Now add two, and you will see You have made up twenty-three.

If you like these clever tricks. Add three more-for twenty-six.

Then three more, if you have time; Now you’ve got to twenty-nine.

Twenty-nine now quickly take— Add one more and Thirty make. by Anonymous

[mindblowingscience]

Quick, how many apples are in the photo above? It's easy to see there are three, but thanks to a distinct processing mechanism in your brain, it might have been even easier than you realize. According to a new study, the human brain has two separate ways of processing numbers of things: one system for quantities of four or fewer, and another system for five and up.

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[picturebookshelf]

Elmo's Trick-or-Treat Fun! (2022)

Story: Andrea Posner-Sanchez -- Art: Joe Mathieu

[nemfrog]

Census roll of indigenous people living at Mille Lac, Minnesota. A history of the art of writing. 1920.

Internet Archive

[wait-whereisthis]

do you think in hamiltons duel alexander counted in french (in his head) realising the parallels between his sons death and the one he was about to face? Its stated in guns and ships that he speaks french, and phillip counted in the same language on his deathbed.

Am i late to the party on this or am i insane???

[c-counter]

“I am very normal about the letter C.”

— Me, 2024

[foxes-that-run]

1, 2, 3 counting

Taylor

So It Goes… - "You did a number on me but honestly, baby, who’s counting? Who’s counting? 1, 2, 3"

The 1 - "We never painted by the numbers, baby, be we were making it count"

The Prophecy - "1 ,2, 3, 4" in the background at the start."

Harry

Midnight Memories - 1, 2, 3 / Straight off the plane to a new hotel

Happily - "(1, 2, 3) / I don't care what people say when we're together" and " So happily / 1, 2, 3, 4"

Best Song Ever "How we danced, how we danced (one, two, one, two, three)"

Grapejuice - "(One, two, three) / (One, two) / Yesterday, it finally came, a sunny afternoon", "I was tryna count up all the places we've been", "The grape juice blues / (One, two, three) / (One, two, three) / (One, two, three) / (One)"

"Meet Me In The Hallway" - "Two, three, four"

Super Pretty - "When you— Two, one, two, three""

Where Do Broken Hearts Go? "Counted all my mistakes and there's only one"

See also 13+7=20

[thatsbelievable]

[project-shereshoy]

Numbers

What's 6 in Mando'a? What about 501st? How do you say "execute order 66"? In this blog post, we'll cover the Mando'a cardinal and ordinal number system, how to make any number from 0-9,999 and other words useful when discussing number and math. Sources are indicated with symbols (^ *) and listed at the bottom.

Numerals

Mando'a uses a base-5 numbering system supplemented with base-10 suffixes. This means 1-5 are unique words along with 0, 10, 100, and 1000. All other numbers are a combination of those words. As it stands, KT Mando’a allows us to count up to 9,999. Here are the counting numbers:

0 - naas^ (literally "nothing") 1 - solus (prefix: sol) 2 - t'ad (prefix: ad) 3 - ehn (prefix: ehn) 4 - cuir (prefix: cur) 5 - rayshe'a (prefix: she) 6 - resol (prefix: rol) 7 - e'tad (prefix: tad) 8 - she'ehn (prefix: shen) 9 - she'cu (prefix: shek)

For the tens place numerals (20, 30, 40, etc), add the “tens” suffix -’eta to the prefixes above above. 0 and 1 do not act as prefixes for counting purposes. 10 is a unique number (ta+raysh aka "two fives").

10 - ta'raysh 20 - ad'eta* 30 - ehn'eta* 40 - cur'eta* 50 - she'eta* 60 - rol'eta* 70 - tad'eta* 80 - shehn'eta* 90 - shek'eta*

For the hundreds place numerals, the principle is the same. Add the “hundreds” suffix -’olan to the original numbers. Like 10, 100 is a unique number.

100 - olan* 200 - ad'olan^ 300 - ehn'olan^ 400 - cur'olan^ 500 - raysh'olan* 600 - rol'olan^ 700 - tad'olan^ 800 - shen'olan^ 900 - shek'olan^

For the thousands place numerals, the pattern continues. The suffix for “thousands” is a conjunction between the suffixes for “ten” and “hundreds”, -’eta’olan. This makes it literally “tens of hundred”. 1000 is an exception to the rule and is instead “ten hundred”.

1000 - ta’raysh’olan* 2000 - ad’eta’olan^ 3000 - ehn’eta’olan^ 4000 - cur’eta’olan^ 5000 - she’eta’olan* 6000 - rol’eta’olan^ 7000 - tad’eta’olan^ 8000 - shen’eta’olan^ 9000 - shek’eta’olan^

More Numbers

To fill the gaps in the above list, simply write out each place with a space between. Eleven (11) is ta'raysh solus*. Two hundred-sixty-three (263) in English is ad’olan rol’eta ehn^ in Mando’a. "Execute order sixty-six" becomes "Ke narir haar’ke’gyce rol’eta resol".

Ordinals

To turn a numeral into an ordinal (1 to 1st or 10 to 10th), add the descriptor suffix -yc. Theoretically this should also work with the suffix -la, but -yc is the one explicitly acknowledged in the KT dictionary. The last (singles) place numeral receives the descriptor suffix. E.g. she’olan sol'yc (501st) or cur’etayc (40th)

Other Useful Words

Soletar, verb, "to count" Sosol ti, phrase, "equal to" Majycir, verb, "to add" Te'habir, verb "to remove or take out" aka subtract

There's no ready answer for "multiply" or "divide", though creative use of tatugir "to repeat" could work in some cases. Fractions might be verbally represented as solus be ta'raysh "1 of 10" or some other prepositional combo that can also represent division. "Mathematics" also doesn't have a dedicated word, but "to calculate" is mirdir.

"But do Mandalorian space-barbarians really need to know math--" Yes. Ballistics. Logistics. Counting pay. Math is everywhere, it is inescapable. Inevitable. Evil Essential.

Sources

Words without source symbols are from officially published works by Karen Traviss, namely the Republic Commando novels. Reference this index to see the book & page number.

Asterik* words are from the lexicon Karen Traviss published digitally, which is hosted as-is on Mandoa.org without alterations (or corrections).

Carat^ words are derivations from the canon words' established patterns. As such, if you want to go with a different interpretation, have fun! These are suggestions and I ain't a cop. We'll answer follow-up questions on how they're derived, but we're not interested in arguing merits of one interpretation over another.

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