Universal 1360:
- Original
- Only a base is ever multiplied by 1.
- Standardized
- In numeral systems, only a base is ever multiplied by 1.
- Keywords
- numeral
- Domain
- word formation
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
- Source
- Greenberg 1978a: 271 (#25)
- Counterexamples
1. Greenberg 1978a: 271-2: “As 0 is never expressed (cf. #529), 1 sometimes is. Since multiplication of any number by 1 is redundant, it is not usually expressed. However, 1 is always part of the numeral system, while 0 never is. Hence the possibility of its employment always arises. … Thus in English, as in many other languages, one says either ‘one hundred’ or ‘hundred’ … An interesting confirmation of the role of counting in the expression of 1 as a multiplier is the fact that in Gujarati (Indic, Indo-European) 100 is “ek so” ‘one hundred’ in counting, but simply “so” ‘hundred’ in context. ”2. Cf. #1366.