Using fewer syllables to express numbers
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Using fewer syllables to express numbers
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#2> 773466
> two hundred ten cubed twelfths plus twelve cubed minus twelve
Intuitive!
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#3This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility.
As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhythm, and the pesky number seven's two syllables throws my cadence off. So I count a bar of 8 like this:
> one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight
Occasionally I'll need to count up to as high as 16, which is especially tricky. It'd be easiest to do it in hexadecimal-style, but somehow I can't bring myself to count a part out as:
> one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight, nine, a, b, c, d, e, f, g
If only I could convince musicians to use zero-based indexing instead of one-based.
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#4I got one that ended with “minus ninety halves”. How is “ninety halves” better than “forty-five”?
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#5I'd love to see this done for French numbers, and no cheating with huitante or nonante.
Re: Using fewer syllables to express numbers
#6This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility. As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhythm, and the pesky number seven's two syllables throws my cadence off. So I count a bar of 8 like this: > one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight Occasionally I'll need to count up to as high as 16, which is especially tricky. It'd be e…
I'd reverse the second half and count it as: one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight, eight, sev, six, five , four, three, two, one.
Re: Using fewer syllables to express numbers
#7I'd love to see this done for French numbers, and no cheating with huitante or nonante.
Cheating? At least it's still base-10!
Re: Using fewer syllables to express numbers
#8This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility. As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhythm, and the pesky number seven's two syllables throws my cadence off. So I count a bar of 8 like this: > one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight Occasionally I'll need to count up to as high as 16, which is especially tricky. It'd be e…
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#9Re: Using fewer syllables to express numbers
#10I got one that ended with “minus ninety halves”. How is “ninety halves” better than “forty-five”?
"Our first priority is to minimize sylliness, but I think our second priority should be to maximize silliness. And 'thirty squared twelfths' is certainly sillier."