110 Reflection with Partner 11/16

[Henry Trinh]

For the week of 11/16, Alvin and I began discussing numbers, its applications, and the days of the week. I learned that there are two number systems: one that is closely-related to Chinese (Sino-Korean system) and the "Korean" number system. There is not one that is more-widely used than the other; but instead, they compliment each other. For example, the Korean number system is used in telling time in hours and applied in most counting situations. The SIno-Korean system is used in representing absolute values. Thus, the system is used in representing the number of years, months, days, minutes, currency and phone numbers. Besides this, I found the day of the week system to be very interesting. In Chinese, the day of the week is represented by simply combining the day of the week corresponding to the numbers between 1 and 7 and then adding the word "day" at the end. In Korean however, each day represents some symbol and combined with the word "day" at the end. I already talked about this in class, but will also list an artifact describing this process in further detail.