Base-4 fractions in Telugu

Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by vorg on Sunday July 02, 2017 @04:15PM (#14684134)

> an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed

Certainly true of Telegu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. But because Bengali is, like English, an Indo-European language, not true of it. Also, not sure what you mean by "etc".

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by nine_k on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:58PM (#14684749)

Sanskrit is also Indo-European, and definitely had a large literary corpus before English became separate from Old Norse.

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by mdns33 on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:22AM (#14685799)

Let the regional language wars begin.

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by eponeponepon on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:13AM (#14687164)

Aren't most wars about regional languages, when you get down to the nuts and bolts?

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by panglott on Monday July 03, 2017 @09:40AM (#14688148)

English is less than 1,000 years old in its identifiably modern form.

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