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To completely represent scientific notation, we need one additional lexical element, to represent a fraction point. SNNz uses the syllable .dot. for this purpose (abbreviated with the usual period). Hence:
- bihexa·pentqua· (bh•p↑), representing 26×105z, can also be expressed as:
- bidothexabi.dot.hexa·hexqua· (b.h•h↑), representing 2.6×106z.
A multiplier digit is only required to the right of dot. If there is no digit to the left, it is assumed to be nil (0). So for example:
- dothexadot.hexa· (.h•) represents 0.6z, i.e., a half.
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The syllable per- can be combined with powers of dozen to provide dozenal analogs of decimal percent (%) and permille (‰). Dozenalists have often expressed these as "pergross" and "per great-gross". However, in SNNz, these can be pronounced perbiqua· and pertriqua·. To some extent these are redundant with bicia· and tricia·, but it is often helpful to think of a fraction as a number of parts from a group. So for example, a ratio of 1/3 could be expressed as 40%z ("four dozen perbiqua·") or even 400‰z ("four gross pertriqua·"). This could be extended to any power of dozen, so for instance analogs for "parts per million", "parts per billion", "parts per trillion", etc., could be expressed as perhexqua·, perennqua·, perunnilqua·, etc.
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Middle Dot
Note that each SNNz prefix expresses some factor which the following unit is multiplied by. This is true not only of the multiplier prefixes, but also of the reciprocal and power prefixes. When such prefixes are concatenated, the effect is to take the product of the factors they represent. Accordingly, this wiki uses the convention of terminating each SNNz prefix with a middle dot (·) character (Unicode U+00B7x). This resembles the dot operator ( ⋅ ) character (Unicode U+22C5x), which conveys the notion of multiplication; however, some fonts render the latter with extra whitespace around the dot, which is desirable in mathematical expressions, but not in word forms.
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