nasin nanpa pona: Difference between revisions

{{tp|nasin nanpa pona}} allows for one extra step to simplify numbers beyond a couple of hundreds: if numbers smaller than 100 precede {{tp|[[ale]]}}, then {{tp|ale}} gets multiplied by this number. As a result, {{tp|nasin nanpa pona}} is {{w|centesimal}} (base 100). The wordsword {{tp|wan}} also precedes {{tp|ale}} to avoid confusion with the {{tp|pu}} system.<ref name="kapilu-tepo" />

| style="text-align: right;" | 110 2345000

| style="white-space: nowrap;" | {{tp|wan ale mute tu wan ale mute mute luka}}

Less established is this extension to the extension that is {{tp|nasin nanpa pona}}: A way to express decimal numbers. {{tok|jan Kapilu}} came up with a way that mirrors base 100 for whole numbers on the other side of the decimal point.

In the book {{Oz|en}}, {{tok|[[jan Sonja]]}} used {{tp|nasin nanpa pona}} as the date format. Additionally,for the copyright year in {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}}, shealso usedusing athe then -little-known numeric variant of {{tp|[[mute]]}} ({{sp|mute2}}), specifically for the sense of "twenty", composed of four glyphs for {{tp|luka}}.