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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
