How to Construct Numbers

In English and in a lot of other languages at least the lower end of the numbers get some odd sort of historical irregularities put into it. So you can always have these sort of odd uh scurry things if you want to add a little irregularity into your number system. But more than just your numerical base okay going and I think the next step is how do you construct numbers where we'll talk about numbers from ten or whatever your numerical base is two to a hundred to a thousand. Just your next order of magnitude whatever. There you have several different things you can do. The simplest system that I know of and this is like the way that Chinese does it is in is the way that