From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 23 08:00:23 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkLF0-0005jx-Pl for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:23 -0700 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkLEx-0005jQ-Tx for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:22 -0700 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 19so3582264fkr for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=LR2CYPvHjICU4INBC+Mv4UqNiAqrkvFt5jSO0a1ug5I=; b=jbx8Z81YTR1FQ7oggupXfz8n9nK3f+jIg5RVNyyb9AQNhSq9XTPCNS15LI0vVF5XRjIGZxnJBX0gR2YXuGkgon4LixyBKEh73T8Bbu5jgLXJuqu74/EdOjPYx274wz3lE173piSXHXhx/QV8I8cQ27CVTJzphgAesNCWDEhvwyU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OInd0sQNWlvNVsksRxZJTy0spn6Wbg5WGNvgrQo3X9FGgjWpoV/PfFGFNGBfh2NfIYD42F2iyG3BBsqEHO4R62jP6irn/CVyRn2J/KCBqEtL4Xl9NMlEjTwkZDfhVL5ezNl4THZuHKBfYHEej2GHs0qFRpeeuc8G+TZOdxZBO9c= Received: by 10.82.160.19 with SMTP id i19mr10824931bue.1193151614872; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.113.2 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2204fa080710230800s44876c54pe1a8455e5a3d0b96@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:00:14 -0400 From: "Jared Angell" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hexadecimal number names In-Reply-To: <71550650710230633v3e7af3adu1ca8a6cf2d0a1ca@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <471DEE68.3010705@houseofholden.net> <71550650710230633v3e7af3adu1ca8a6cf2d0a1ca@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5544 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: angell.jared@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Why base 16? Why not use base two? On 10/23/07, Yoav Nir wrote: > Here ya go. > Assuming that you're learning through L4B, it's in lesson 5. > > dau > > 10 > fei > > 11 > gai > > 12 > jau > > 13 > rei > > 14 > vai > > 15 > > > > On 10/23/07, Lance Holden wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to the language (and hence this list). As a programmer I find > > the function/argument approach of the language fascinating and it seems > > to me more natural to learn than a 'natural' language (though I may > > rethink this the more I try to learn). > > > > The first thing I'm interested in; I've read of the debate about whether > > lojban should use base-10 or base-16 numbers. I see the list of base-10 > > numerals but I haven't seen anything for a base-16 number. Is there an > > extra set of number words (something past so)? Or are abu. by. cy. (or > > tcy.), etc. used like the computer hex does (A-F for 10-15)? > > > > Lance. > > > > > > > > > -- Jared "There is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; there is no passion, there is serenity; there is no death, there is the Universe" "Work smart when you can and hard if you must" "When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat" "Open Source: The light side of computing. It's never too late to join"