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Pannous edited this page Sep 24, 2022 · 12 revisions

there may have been a philosophical and linguistical dispute of how to count, starting from zero or starting from one.
this problem arises when the learning the alphabet the days of the week, month and year and mathematics.

๐“ˆ’๐“ธ๐“†‡๐“‡ณ solo ๐ŸŒค 0 vs 1 ๐ŸŒ˜mono, ๐ŸŒ•single, ๐ŸŒ’lonely: being one vs having no-one

this may or may not have resulted in cross identification of adjacent numbers:

If not a number shift, we can often identify a pairing between adjacent numbers (close levensthein distance)
which can often be explained by x+1 x-1 --x micro semantics:

  1. minute (mono = 1)
  2. second

versus

  1. hour ( erst = 1 )
  2. minute ( min = 2)
0 based synthesis based 1
0 zero eyen 00 Ein,ek 1
0 none mono one 1
1 ein ? shin 2
1 erst ๐’„‘ iแนฃu Baum 2
2 ni ใƒ‹ tree 3
2 teen dreen 3
3 dritter tetra 4
4 quat quint 5
5 ๐“‡ผ pent liu ๅ…ญ๏ฝœ6
6 sita siete 7
7 siba ูงูจ่‰ฒๅทด ba ๅ…ซ 8
8 basmony ะฒะพััŒะผะพะน mneun 9
8 ach'many mneun 9
9 ๐’…” nin,in,9+1,shin ๐’…”,๐’Šบ ล E 10
9 diz'a 10-1 diz 10

The whole chinese system might be shifted if one just looks at correspondences
yi โ‡จ 0
er โ‡จ 1 erst
san โ‡จ 2 teen
si โ‡จ 3 sri
wu โ‡จ 4 four
liu โ‡จ 5 ๐“‡ผ โ‹ ๅ…ญ
qi โ‡จ 6 qix
ba โ‡จ 7 qiba (reunion)

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