Universal 529:
- Original
- No number is ever expressed in any numeral system by means of a function any of whose arguments is ≥ L.
- Standardized
- No number is ever expressed in any numeral system by means of a function any of whose arguments is ≥ L.
- Keywords
- numeral
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
- Source
- Greenberg 1978a: 256 (#5)
- Counterexamples
For example, in a system which only goes up to 7 (e.g. L=8), 6 could not be expressed by (9-3), since 9 > L.