Ordinal numbers

[Charles E Buchwald]

If you are strict about how they are written, then you don't need many constants and keywords. Just add:

eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
thirty
forty
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
hundred
thousand
million
billion

These 21 additional words would allow numbers up to 999 billion if you construct your phrases like this:
 "one hundred thousand two hundred fourteen" 
or 
"twenty million four hundred twenty two thousand three hundred forty six"

If you add the "th" suffix to the first nine, then you can include stuff like
"one hundred thousand two hundred fourteenth"

- Charles

On 03 Jul 2014, at 5:46 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> What would seem a reasonable upper limit to English-like spelled numbers?
> 
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