| 31. | Although grammatically the dual number can be applied to any word, in practice it was used quite sporadically during the last century.
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| 32. | According to G�ldemann, the non-Khoe Khoesan languages ( Kx'a ), do not have dual number marking of nouns.
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| 33. | Historically, the dual number has been a full grammatical number, participating as the third element in singular-dual-plural distinction.
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| 34. | Proto-Balto-Slavic still distinguished three Sorbian are the only remaining Slavic languages that still make consistent use of the dual number.
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| 35. | Besides the specific differences given below, it should be noted that nouns, verbs and adjectives still had separate endings for the dual number.
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| 36. | In 1946 U . Bencivenga published an essay on the dual numbers and the split-complex numbers where he used the term bireal number.
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| 37. | It has been preserved in a number of dialects but the meaning of words in the dual number is equal to their blending in plural.
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| 38. | Another application involves using split-complex numbers, dual numbers, and ordinary complex numbers, to interpret a real matrix as a complex number.
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| 39. | The concepts of the dual number and its " imaginary " ?, ? 2 = 0, do not appear in the development of Galilean geometry.
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| 40. | For instance, the root pac meaning " to cook ", takes the following forms in the dual number of the present tense, called lam lakra:
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