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Officially, Toaq Delta has nothing to say about how numbers work. | Officially, Toaq Delta has nothing to say about how numbers work. '''Kıazıu''' is [[User:Loekıa]]'s unofficial but popular proposal for a number system. | ||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
In previous versions of Toaq, numbers took the form of '''verbs of cardinality''' (e.g. {{T|heı}} was "to be ten in number"). But this system was limited: it made it awkward to talk about numbers in the abstract, and gave us no natural way to extend the system to more "exotic" numbers like the negative integers, non-integers, or even zero for that matter. | In previous versions of Toaq, numbers took the form of '''verbs of cardinality''' (e.g. {{T|heı}} was "to be ten in number"). But this system was limited: it made it awkward to talk about numbers in the abstract, and gave us no natural way to extend the system to more "exotic" numbers like the negative integers, non-integers, or even zero for that matter. | ||
There have been plenty of number system proposals in the past (particularly in the days of Toaq Beta), but now that we have prefixes to play with and special grammar for pronouns, | There have been plenty of number system proposals in the past (particularly in the days of Toaq Beta), but now that we have prefixes to play with and special grammar for pronouns, Delta has given us the chance to do even better. | ||
== The basics == | == The basics == | ||