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Numerals

This grammar defines numerals from 1 to 999999. The implementations are adapted from the [numerals library http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/GF/examples/numerals/] which defines numerals for 88 languages. The resource grammar implementations add to this inflection (if needed) and ordinal numbers.

Note 1. Number 1 as defined in the category Numeral here should not be used in the formation of noun phrases, and should therefore be removed. Instead, one should use [Structural Structural.html].one_Quant. This makes the grammar simpler because we can assume that numbers form plural noun phrases.

Note 2. The implementations introduce spaces between parts of a numeral, which is often incorrect - more work on (un)lexing is needed to solve this problem.

  abstract Numeral = Cat [Numeral,Digits] ** {
  
  cat 
    Digit ;       -- 2..9
    Sub10 ;       -- 1..9
    Sub100 ;      -- 1..99
    Sub1000 ;     -- 1..999
    Sub1000000 ;  -- 1..999999
  
  data 
    num : Sub1000000 -> Numeral ;
  
    n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8, n9 : Digit ;
  
    pot01 : Sub10 ;                               -- 1
    pot0 : Digit -> Sub10 ;                       -- d * 1
    pot110 : Sub100 ;                             -- 10
    pot111 : Sub100 ;                             -- 11
    pot1to19 : Digit -> Sub100 ;                  -- 10 + d
    pot0as1 : Sub10 -> Sub100 ;                   -- coercion of 1..9
    pot1 : Digit -> Sub100 ;                      -- d * 10
    pot1plus : Digit -> Sub10 -> Sub100 ;         -- d * 10 + n
    pot1as2 : Sub100 -> Sub1000 ;                 -- coercion of 1..99
    pot2 : Sub10 -> Sub1000 ;                     -- m * 100
    pot2plus : Sub10 -> Sub100 -> Sub1000 ;       -- m * 100 + n
    pot2as3 : Sub1000 -> Sub1000000 ;             -- coercion of 1..999
    pot3 : Sub1000 -> Sub1000000 ;                -- m * 1000
    pot3plus : Sub1000 -> Sub1000 -> Sub1000000 ; -- m * 1000 + n
Numerals as sequences of digits have a separate, simpler grammar
  cat 
    Dig ;  -- single digit 0..9
  
  data
    IDig  : Dig -> Digits ;       -- 8
    IIDig : Dig -> Digits -> Digits ; -- 876
  
    D_0, D_1, D_2, D_3, D_4, D_5, D_6, D_7, D_8, D_9 : Dig ;
  
  }