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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Number systems
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:02:05 -0400
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On Saturday 21 July 2007 16:51, Martin Welgemoed wrote:
> How do you say which number system you mean.
>
> For example: .i li papa could mean 17 in hexadecimal and 11 in decimal.

Use {ju'u} followed by the base: {li papa ju'u paxa}. The first operand of 
{ju'u} has to be digits, not the result of an operation, else you have 
something that may be grammatical but meaningless, such as {li te'o bi'e te'a 
pai ju'u paxa}.

There ought to be a cmavo like {ki} which you can use with {ju'u} to indicate 
the current base. Assuming that it exists, if you forgot what base you were 
using, you can set it to 10 by saying {ju'u dau}.

Pierre