ArticleAuthors: Hoang Thi Chau (2009)
The Cardinal number system is add ressed in this paper as a smallyettypic al sign systcmin its larger sign super-system - language. The biiaceted nature of signs is clearly demonstratcd: most numbers have doublcm canings, one is structural while the other is lexical. For instance, in Vietnamcse, the number “lbrty four" lexically denotes “the next number after 43 in natural number chains and structurally means 4x10+4. Meamvhile, irv Prench, number “80" is quatre-vingt (4x20) withihc lexical nicaning of “eighty” while it structurally means “4x20”; and number “70” soixanl-dix has the structure “60+10". Deep under the addition and multiplication problems mentioned above are mathmatical
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