Rihannsu Numbers
The Romulans use a number system similar, yet different from its human counterparts.
The below list should help the reader piece together Romulan versions of human numbers
with a minimum of fuss, listing some Romulan numbers and their human translations. These
are common to both Rom'lesta and Rihannsu. |
| zero (0) |
- vet |
101 |
- tie-ptil'tie |
| one (1) |
- tie |
102 |
- tie-ptil'til |
| two (2) |
- til |
103 |
- tie-ptil'sie |
| three (3) |
- sie |
110 |
- tie-ptil'dev |
| four (4) |
- sev |
111 |
- tie-ptil'dev'tie |
| five (5) |
- ko |
120 |
- tie-ptil'til-hn |
| six (6) |
- kil |
121 |
- tie-ptil'til-hn'tie |
| seven (7) |
- yo |
1,000 |
- tie-psie (tie(1) with
sie(3) zeros) |
| eight (8) |
- yil |
| nine (9) |
- pie |
10,000 |
- tie-psev |
| ten (10) |
- dev |
100,000 |
- tie-pko |
| eleven (11) |
- dev'tie |
1,000,000 |
- tie-pkil |
| twelve (12) |
- dev'til |
10,000,000 |
- tie-pyo |
| thirteen (13) |
- dev'sie |
100,000,000 |
- tie-pyil |
| twenty (20) |
- til-hn |
1,000,000,000 |
- tie-ppie |
| twenty-one (21) |
- til-hn'tie |
10,000,000,000 |
- tie-pdev |
| twenty-two (22) |
- til-hn'til |
100,000,000,000,000 |
- tie-pdev'sev |
| twenty-three (23) |
- til-hn'sie |
The Rihannsu
number system is based on the first ten numbers. Any number past ten is a combination of
these numbers. Starting with the number twenty, the suffix "-hn" is added. For
example, the number "til" (2) combined with the suffix "-hn" makes
"til-hn", the Rihannsu number for twenty. The same process is used for hundreds,
using the suffix "-ptil" (p concatenated with til, representing two zeros). Past
the hundreds, the system is more complex. The apparent suffix this time represents the
place value. Using this number system, there is a Rihannsu number for every standard
English number. |
| thirty (30) |
- sie-hn |
| forty (40) |
- sev-hn |
| fifty (50) |
- ko-hn |
| sixty (60) |
- kil-hn |
| seventy (70) |
- yo-hn |
| eighty (80) |
- yil-hn |
| ninety (90) |
- pie-hn |
| one hundred (100) |
- tie-ptil |
|
Units of Measurement
|
| ewa |
"second" (4.2 Terran
seconds) |
| siuren |
"minute" (12 ewa/
50.5 seconds) |
| kevn |
"period" (12 surien/
10.1 minutes) |
| tarim |
"hour" (12 kevn/
121.2 minutes) |
| tel |
"day" (12 tarim/
24.24 hours) |
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