misadventures in conlanging 

sensible ways to handle large numbers:

★ one digit per power of ten, starting with the highest power ("X million Y myriad Z thousand W hundred Vty U")
★ grouping your powers of ten into neat little groups to reduce the number of words needed ("X million Yty Z thousand W hundred Vty U")

toqqemtic:

hey what if we put the powers of ten first, group things by the hundred and reverse the 10s and 1s like in german and dutch ("million X myriad Y hundred W&Zty U&Vty")

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