[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit cardinal numerals: clarification

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Not mentioned so far,

Kim Plofker, Mathematics in India (Princeton, 2009).


On 18 June 2014 14:08, Brendan Gillon <brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Thanks to the several people who responded, to whom I have replied off
> list.
>
> By way of clarification, I am especially interested in the conventions
> governing the extension of the counting system to extremely large positive
> integers.
>
> The problem I have set myself is to define formally a counting sequence
> for a variety of natural languages. On the one hand, I am interested in
> numeral systems as a subgrammar of a natural language illustrating many of
> the problems of the larger grammar of which it is a part; and on the other
> hand, once I work out the details for a language, I then formulate an
> exercise,on the basis of the grammar I have worked out, for my students in
> my course, Introduction to Semantics.
>
> Cordially yours,
>
> Brendan Gillon
>
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