Re: [tied] Re: Numerals query again

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Numerals query again


>
> Piotr:
> >Perhaps in the troubled times of Late Antiquity the average mature
> >speaker of Vulgar Latin had only 17 digits.
>
> Do those 17 digits include the... erh, well... the nose? :)

Only in _very_ vulgar Latin. It's also possible that the system is of
extraterrestrial origin:

"My desk's at the back on the class
And nobody, nobody knows
I'm a Marrog from Mars
With a body of brass
And seventeen fingers and toes."

Piotr