Integers with leading zeroes
Laura Creighton
lac at openend.se
Wed Jul 22 05:38:46 EDT 2015
In a message of Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:10:55 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>My native Finnish luckily has distinct words for the two things: "luku"
>(a quantity) and "numero" (a digit, numeral or label):
>
> luonnollinen luku (natural number)
> kokonaisluku (integer)
> rationaaliluku (rational number)
> reaaliluku (real number)
> kompleksiluku (complex number)
> liukuluku (floating-point number)
> desimaaliluku (decimal number)
>
> puhelinnumero (telephone number)
> rekisterinumero (registration number, license plate number)
> tilinumero (account number)
> huoneen numero (room number)
> sarjanumero (serial number)
> tuotenumero (product number)
>
>Obviously, the words "liukuluku" and "desimaaliluku" slide into the
>realms of numerals, but nevertheless, they deal with quantification
>rather than identification.
>
>
>Marko
What I want to know is why is 'huoneen numero' 2 words?
Laura
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