From phma@phma.optus.nu Wed Aug 01 09:45:58 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGHKc-0007ib-F8 for llg-members@lojban.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:45:56 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A0FCE859 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:45:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: Create Lojban geocaching coins? Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:45:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200708011115.54956.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560708010849h4d95c8f4x7a0fd1a6a0601ba8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560708010849h4d95c8f4x7a0fd1a6a0601ba8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708011245.45705.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 307 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Wednesday 01 August 2007 11:49, Jorge Llambías wrote: > I was able to track down "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum", but where > does the {bi} come from? An old coin called a Spanish milled dollar was also called a piece of eight. It was a large coin with radial grooves along which it could be broken into eight bits. Thus a quarter is two bits. Pierre