From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 12 13:27:51 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DsRM7-0006zi-2y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:51 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DsRM6-0006zb-Q3 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:50 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:50 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: panonono Message-ID: <20050712202750.GW2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <42CFE150.3080608@yandex.ru> <925d17560507091323155ff26f@mail.gmail.com> <42D3D8E9.9050806@yandex.ru> <925d175605071212424641ec79@mail.gmail.com> <20050712200649.GU2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d175605071213175436e6a4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d175605071213175436e6a4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1569 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:17:27PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 7/12/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:42:30PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > On 7/12/05, diLItyr wrote: > > > > .i xu di'e cu drani .i lu .i le skina datnyvei be lenu la > > > > murkas. cu se pamsa'e ku ku poi samki'o li cicibi li'u > > > > > > > > (The video file of petted Murka, that's 338Kb [in size]) > > > > > > If {samki'o} means "kilobytes", it would seem correct. > > > > It does not; it means "kibi-". > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix > > Well, I guess it would still be acceptable, if the "bytes" are > understood as the x3 of {samki'o}. I don't suppose there are many > other units that get prefixed with kibi-. Nope, not many. :-) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/