[seqfan] Re: Serbian/Croatian numbers

[Sean A. Irvine]

Hi Allan,

A native speaker, Neven Sajko, confirmed the changes.

There are often multiple spelling options with this kind of sequence
including exactly which characters are counted, which gender is used, and
so on.  For some languages I think we already have region specific
variations.

Sean.




On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 at 16:03, Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Later: Apparently both the Italian and Basque Wiktionary sites give
> "šestnaest"
> as an alternate spelling. We still need a native speaker to explain the
> actual situation. But what will we do if it turns out that there are two
> acceptable variants? (Etymologically, the spelling with an extra t makes
> sense -- the word is derived from a phrase meaning something like "six on
> ten", "šest na deset", so that t is part of the word for "six".
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:54 AM Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Certainly Wiktionary gives an 8-letter word for 16, "šesnaest", instead
> > of a 9-letter word as the sequence leads us to expect.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:53 AM Sean A. Irvine <sairvin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Do we have any Serbian or Croatian speakers here?
> >>
> >> I believe the letter counts for this language as given in A056597 are
> >> partially in error, with n=16, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 incorrect.
> >>
> >> See:
> >>
> >> https://oeis.org/A056597  (current)
> >> https://oeis.org/draft/A056597  (proposed correction)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sean.
> >>
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