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by Johann Friedrich Werneburg (1777 - 1851).
Proposals for dozenal digits, number words etc.
I'd forgotten about this - found a card with reference from my student days (1962), when there was no possibiity of getting details as easily as here is today.
Werneburg referred to the dozenal system as 'Teliosadik' (Greek), and you can get details by googling teliosadik. More than just that, it is possible to get a reprint (from India), and I have ordered one for myself.
I use the following conventions for dozenal numbers in my posts.
* prefixes a dozenal number, e.g. *50 = 60.
The apostrophe (') is used as a dozenal point, e.g. 0'6 = 0.5.
T and E stand for ten and eleven respectively.
Here is the system of number names Werneburg "invented, designed, exhibited, and elaborated" ([i]erfunden, entworfen, ausgestellt, und ausgearbeitet[/i]), in five European languages, including his native German:
Note that he cooked all this up in the year [i]taun einarde sechstaun[/i], or "taun on'arde sixtaun" (zen gross sixzy = 1060[sub]z[/sub] = 1800[sub]d[/sub]), when he was not yet even [i]zweitaun[/i] (or "twotaun", or twenzy) years of age. Pretty good effort for a young man in that day and age. Apparently it was his [i]annus mirabilis[/i].
However, I think he was a little unrealistic about the suitability of that umlauted O in [i]mör[/i] ("eleven") for all of those languages.
And I do find the nested layers of high powers a bit [i]übertöten[/i] (overkill). :) Although they apparently completely skirt the "apposition problem" (which has come to be rather notorious here due to a certain party's zealous jeremiads about it). Even though Werneburg uses the same German digit-words for both mantissa and exponent, he can distinguish [i]zwei dreinarde[/i] (2,000,000[sub]z[/sub]) from [i]drei zweinarde[/i] (30,000[sub]z[/sub]), because only the very last digit-word attached to a special ending is ever interpreted as an exponent. But I think we've already demonstrated less convoluted ways to solve that problem...
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
In case the Fraktur is making any of you cross-eyed, here's a transliteration, and my attempt at a translation:
[quote="Johann Friedrich Werneburg"]
[/quote]
Well, I suppose in those days publishers hadn't yet gotten into the art of larding marketing hype on the dust-jacket in order to boost sales. (No dust jackets back then either.) So I suppose authors had to do all the hyping themselves, right on their cover pages.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
As to the title of this system, Teliosadik, it clearly derives from Greek τέλειος (teleios), "perfect", which jibes with Werneburg's self-promoting enthusiasm that he had devised the "perfect" (vollkommene) number system.
The -adik (or -adic) suffix also derives from Greek, appearing in words like monadic, dyadic, triadic, and is roughly the equivalent of the Latinate -ary, appearing in words like unary, binary, ternary.
In short, Werneburg's "Teliosadic" essentially means "Perfectary", implying dozenal is the "perfect base". Well, I won't argue with that much, at least.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
Double sharp @ Jan 28 2018, 03:29 AM wrote: Incidentally, Werneburg's transdecimals look like argam-14 and argam-15 respectively (turned 3 and reflected 9).
He may have chosen the capital letter Z (as printed in Fraktur), and rotated that for his 'ten' (zehn).
Shaun @ Jan 28 2018, 05:34 PM wrote:I would appreciate numbers in your first column instead of the formulae my browser cannot interpret correctly.
Done.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
By the way, the online reference I have is the free ebook here, which contains all of Volume 1 of Teliosadik. This appears to cover only the number system and a primer on arithmetic. Presumably there must be a Volume 2 that gets into his "only perfect Degree-, Time-, Measure-, Weight-, and Money- System", but I cannot locate an online resource for it.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
Note that Werneburg prescribes a highly-convoluted recursively-nested scheme for achieving large powers. For instance, to express a power like "dozen to the eleven-gross ten-dozen ninth power", 10Ɛᘔ9z, we must first peel off one power of dozen to make the rest a power of gross:
But then we must factor out each of the digits in the exponent, in reverse order:
10Ɛᘔ9z = 10·1004·100Ɛ0·100500z
in order to then render each factor as a word:
10Ɛᘔ9z = taun vierarde möroide fünfiaden
This is on the path towards the Byzantine complexity of Knuth's recursive "dozen-gross-myriad-myllion-byllion-..." system (though of course Knuth's was the most extreme possible expression of that idea).
EDIT: The additional commentary above used to be here, but it might be interpreted by some as off-topic. It apparently prompted DK to touch off a particularly snarky off-topic exchange which Shaun moved to a new Off Topic thread which he created for the purpose. However, in an apparent fit of pique, DK unexpectedly deleted that thread.
I've since moved the additional commentary elsewhere as a demonstration of technique (4) in this post. My hope is that this technique will lessen the likelihood of rancorous battles between members. And perhaps failure to apply this technique will reveal that the offender is acting in bad faith, or extreme laziness, or both.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
Kodegadulo @ Jan 28 2018, 06:50 PM wrote:By the way, the online reference I have is the free ebook here, which contains all of Volume 1 of Teliosadik. This appears to cover only the number system and a primer on arithmetic. Presumably there must be a Volume 2 that gets into his "only perfect Degree-, Time-, Measure-, Weight-, and Money- System", but I cannot locate an online resource for it.
There is also a shorter version available online, which includes his ideas on metrology and time.
It is dated 1798d and has a different symbol for the numeral eleven:
To be honest, I think that the main problem with the nested schemes like Werneburg's, Knuth's, and even the long scale without "milliards" and so on is that the nesting doesn't correspond to the base, and there's thus a lot of mental unpacking needed to figure out what power is being referred to. If Werneburg had decided to drop this ballast and call 10^ba9 neunarde zehnoide möriaden, I think his system would have gotten a lot stronger despite retaining this nesting. (Similarly, I find that Knuth's myllion system becomes a lot more palatable if you use it for octal or hexadecimal instead of decimal.) Of course, Kode's system is even better, since it recognises that the only words here that are actually providing useful information are those corresponding to the digits and the sign of the power, and economically leaves everything else while maximising the familiarity of these two things that do matter.
Please note:
All I would like to see in this thread are discussions about Teliosadik, its symbols, nomenclature and metrological proposals (these latter are in the short version mentioned earlier and echo the metron - duor structures).
Arguments about other systems detract from the main topic and posts have been moved; see "Off Topic" thread in this forum.
I use the following conventions for dozenal numbers in my posts.
* prefixes a dozenal number, e.g. *50 = 60.
The apostrophe (') is used as a dozenal point, e.g. 0'6 = 0.5.
T and E stand for ten and eleven respectively.
Shaun @ Jan 30 2018, 08:26 PM wrote: ...and metrological proposals (these latter are in the short version mentioned earlier and echo the metron - duor structures).
Here is the actual link shown in Shaun's image: short version.
I started looking at that, but not being fluent in German, I haven't been able to locate the passage(s) about metrology. What page(s) did you find it on?
P.S. I've edited my post above to include courtesy links pointing into the posts Shaun moved to Off Topic. I also extend my post to include Pendlebury"s prefix scheme in the comparison against Werneburg's nomenclature.
As of 1202/03/01[z]=2018/03/01[d] I use:
ten,eleven = ↊↋, ᘔƐ, ӾƐ, XE or AB.
Base-neutral base annotations
Systematic Dozenal Nomenclature
Primel Metrology
Western encoding (not by choice)
Greasemonkey + Mathjax + PrimelDozenator
(Links to these and other useful topics are in my index post;
click on my user name and go to my "Website" link)
Kodegadulo @ Jan 31 2018, 04:20 PM wrote:
I haven't been able to locate the passage(s) about metrology. What page(s) did you find it on?
Page 17 onwards.
He divides the circle by powers of *10, and applying this to the day, comes up with the duor and suddivisions thereof; from the Earth's circumference he derives a unit in the same way, equivalent to the metron of *3.8 inches. (This is given in terms of the Parisian foot). From the metron we get the 'Stab' (i.e. dometron) of *10 metron.
Area is based on the square metron, volume, and weight, on the cubic metron.
He also suggests a unit of currency and gives the value in sous and deniers.
This is followed by a discussion of the application of twelves to music (which I haven't yet gone through in detail).
There are some printing errors here and there; he mentions the 3:4:5 triangle and the 5:*10:*11, but puts 1 for 5 in the latter and then gives its area as 6 when it should be *26. But these are minor points, considering that the whole text has been set by hand.
I use the following conventions for dozenal numbers in my posts.
* prefixes a dozenal number, e.g. *50 = 60.
The apostrophe (') is used as a dozenal point, e.g. 0'6 = 0.5.
T and E stand for ten and eleven respectively.
Please note that the OffTopic thread I opened, and to which Kode has created links, has been deleted by DK.
Members are entitled to delete their own posts, of course, but not those of other members; DK has been suspended for a month for deleting posts other than his own.
I use the following conventions for dozenal numbers in my posts.
* prefixes a dozenal number, e.g. *50 = 60.
The apostrophe (') is used as a dozenal point, e.g. 0'6 = 0.5.
T and E stand for ten and eleven respectively.
A strange structure; he uses names for powers of 100 (einarde) similar to our powers of a million. I will look at the original online to find his reasons out.
