From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 22 06:46:58 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E7Cdd-00058j-UK for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:46:58 -0700 Received: from mail.datair.com ([209.119.40.20] helo=temp.datair.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E7CdW-00058b-V0 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:46:57 -0700 Received: by mail.datair.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:46:49 -0500 Message-ID: <63E52E63CA0C8843A438A3410289264AD4C2EB@mail.datair.com> From: Scott Weller To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Why 16 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:46:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1807 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: ScottW@datair.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners >My question was about basic names for digits, from {no} to {vai}: why >do we have exactly 16 of them? In a subtle sense we don't have exactly 16 of them. The names for the ten digits zero to nine are of a different form than the names for the six digits A to F. The first ten names are all of the form CV, whereas the next 6 are all of the form CVV. What we really have is a basic set of 10 digits, supplemented by an additional set of 6 digits for those times when we need hexadecimal. mu'o mi'e scot