Universal #531

Legacy number: 531

 Number  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)

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Discussion
Notes
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.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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.