From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 20 04:13:55 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E6RIR-00039g-34 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:13:55 -0700 Received: from smtp21.mail.bbt.yahoo.co.jp ([202.93.85.136]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E6RIM-00039Q-Tm for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:13:54 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (servantodehomaro@221.171.170.18 with login) by smtp21.mail.bbt.yahoo.co.jp with SMTP; 20 Aug 2005 11:13:48 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:13:43 +0900 From: "djun." To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Why 16 In-Reply-To: <2d3df92a0508191700767a9e0b@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d3df92a0508191700767a9e0b@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20050820195629.C735.SERVANTODEHOMARO@yahoo.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1794 X-Approved-By: servantodehomaro@yahoo.co.jp 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: servantodehomaro@yahoo.co.jp Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners coi .xili,odor. H> I understand the usefulness of hexa digits, but for that H> reason we could also use a hundred or even more basic numbers, H> as those cover 16 as well. So what's the point (of 16)? I think so, too. And I think one of the reasons is that we, Japanese, request the basic names of 10,000 100,000,000 1,000,000,000,000 10,000,000,000,000,000 and so on. (^_^) As you see, we have other system of counting numbers than yours. I think we'd better use Lojbanized version of "deca","hecto", "kilo", "mega", "giga", "tera" etc. Of course we also must be able to use the Lojbanized version of "kibi", "mebi", "gibi", "tebi" etc. Does Lojbanistan already have them, or not yet? co'omi'e .djun. -- xongos.djun.itciros. __________________________________ Save the earth http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ondanka/