Lapine (the language of indigenous rabbits of Hampshire in the novel Watership Down) has no numbers past four. They have words for one, two, three, and four, and then "hrair" meaning "uncountably many".
Yet people say rabbits are good at multiplying. I get it, but I don't get it.
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@spacemagick True of our arithmetic.
In Lapine speakers' arithmetic, cardinal numbers 1 to 4 appear to have been defined through a bijection with rabbit legs. Beyond that is the point at infinity. This is why the runt with Spidey-sense in #WatershipDown is named "Fiver". He probably had more than four littermates, but "five", "thousand", and "countless" are all synonyms in #LapineLanguage.
Damian Yerrick
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