From phma@oltronics.net Thu Jul 06 19:05:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21902 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 02:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 02:05:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 02:05:58 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA32621 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:05:54 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.51, neofelis, , 207.15.133.51 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 22:05:55(EDT) on July 06, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:00:50 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <22.813ccc7.26966ac2@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <22.813ccc7.26966ac2@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070622055102.00877@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >Use ra'e, as in ex. 3.5, p. 433, in the Red Book: > >pi ci mu ra'e pa vo re bi mu ze >.35142857142857... ( or 2.46/7 or 123/350) >[or .35 ra'e 142857] >So, your example of 0.3333333... would be no pi ra'e ci For the p-adic numbers or the objects called "brenoms" in French, I propose using "sera'e". Thus, in base 7, li no pi ra'e pa dunli li mu sera'e pi (0.1111... = ...55555.), both being 1/6. phma