Numbers

Numbers
Skize

Rhean uses a base-ten number system:

0 - nol
1 - adin
2 - lak
3 - čan
4 - tar
5 - ǩo
6 - šok
7 - daam
8 - woz
9 - kiz 10 - ašon
11 - ašnadin
12 - ašnolak
13 - ašnočan
14 - ašnotar
15 - ašnoǩo
16 - ašnošok
17 - ašnodaam
18 - ašnowoz
19 - ašnokiz 20 - lakšon
30 - čanšon
40 - taršon
50 - ǩošon
60 - šokšon
70 - daamšon
80 - wozšon
90 - kizšon
100 - storok
1000 - dural
200 - lakstrok
300 - čanstrok
500 - ǩostrok
... etc.

3000 - čandural
4000 - tardural
8000 - wozdural
... etc.

614 - šokstrok ašnotar
3843 - čandural wozstrok taršon čan
9999 - kizdural kizstrok kizšon kiz

The larger numbers are named for every fourth power of ten (instead of every third power as in English).

10,000 - miryad    (ten thousand)
100,000,000 - ülyad    (hundred million)
1,000,000,000,000 - rhalyad    (trillion)
10,000,000,000,000,000 - aivekz    (bazillion)

This makes more sense when you group the zeros in sets of four:

1,0000 - miryad
10,0000 - ašon miryad
100,0000 - storok miryad
1000,0000 - dural miryad
1,0000,0000 - ülyad
10,0000,0000 - ašon ülyad
etc.

Each group of four zeros is called a tarad, and this is sometimes used to state very large numbers:

1,0000,0000,0000 - rhalyad
1,0000,0000,0000,0000 - aivekz
1,0000,0000,0000,0000,0000 - adin ki ǩo taradi ("one and five tarads")
7,0000,0000,0000,0000,0000,0000 - daam ki šok taradi ("seven and six tarads")

Another word nolyad was coined to describe very very large numbers by the number of zeros. If we multiply our last monster number above by ten, we get 70,0000,0000,0000,0000,0000,0000 (seventy brobdignillion) which could either be daamšon ki šok taradi "seventy and six tarads", or daam lakšon-ǩonolyad "seven twenty-five-zeros-illion". In this system, a googol would be stroknolyad "a hundred-zeros-illion" and a googolplex would be stroknolyad-nolyad "a googol-zeros-illion".

"Infinity" is ešema, which comes from Omurax.

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