krtisfranks wrote: > I think that there really are two words here. > > The first is "cardinality", which we already have. It is simple "x1 is the > number of elements in/cardinality of set x2". This uses on kancu2 and > kancu3 (antirespectively). This requires no counter (person doing the > counting) and is independent of the method used to count. > > The second word is something along the lines of "enumerate", "tabulate", > "tally", or "count up". This is a task performed by someone (a counter) and > depends on the method. I personally think that it would be fine to > straight-up delete kancu3 for this purpose, but perhaps we should just > retool it (I am not sure how, though). Instead of trying to figure out the > cardinality of a set (kancu2), it would just be producing a running tally
> of objects/divisions/units (kancu2'). In this way, it is not actually tied > to the grand total, only what has thus far been counted. This word would be > useful for estimation of the size of an army, counting coins or money > values from a purse (counting by units), or counting down in units of time > (kancu2' would just be something like "loi snidu"). In this word a new > terbri could be introduced which designates the first value from which the > counting starts; in counting down time, this would commonly be something > like "ten [seconds]". (Aside: counting down would involve li ni'u (pa) in
> the units terbri.) Notice that the counter is not actually counting how > many seconds are remaining; they are starting with that knowledge and then > enumerating them in reverse order as they pass (within approximation - the > counted seconds are not perfect, nor is the original t-minus-ten mark).
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