From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 10 17:28:42 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIuJF-0004KR-7P for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:41 -0800 Received: from mail-yw0-f186.google.com ([209.85.211.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIuJ7-0004FG-4m for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:38 -0800 Received: by ywh16 with SMTP id 16so403273ywh.25 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WALO12VrvdO3GKwktHPmmM9rtDAXGgO1Ac/pwbRcniY=; b=swdFPyF9OPXdmCjlJqtuHn9SiSu07eBp1JabsDSEvsW4oBjkOqyKJk1yTPJikXnpB2 fqqkL2L/HXXF6WrrCF/27Njtl+LDE/R5adh3frWOqTicnREyCvbl+FWvbyWkbDEqjodM FVooAoeZ29jsTwmAafUlkE4Z5Ut1s6DVYnkyI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JH/yzBneUQteufhf9LHrlq4VF9OH0MhdHEfFJoPfJb1178qZOHhk3KcnaUlPlwnhEj ZMhi55L1lAbRXrK7P93ltA064JnfFdVmcRgcIN968cqvSxAPDi1D9FXFxlxir24VlOOe DPRn4wegeVbsIxrewHRaRBx4jaR3dV+O4gQi4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.42.35 with SMTP id u35mr922672agj.106.1260494906693; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200912101715.05760.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <429fde40912101249s24079419g2804c566b311b2a2@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560912101349u1b601d8i299215cf294c57a7@mail.gmail.com> <200912101715.05760.phma@phma.optus.nu> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:28:26 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560912101728q10ed995fg2202bfc242e14b0c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 2640 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:49:57 Jorge Llambías wrote: > >> Only it's actually 3.75 newtons. :) > > That depends on whether "2 seconds to the second power" means 2 square seconds > or the square of 2 seconds. You push a 3 kg object on a frictionless surface for 2 seconds with both hands, exerting the same constant force with each hand. The object, which started at rest, moves 5 meters in that time. What is the force exerted by each hand? The answer is precisely "3 kilograms times 5 metres divided by 2 seconds to the second power equals 3.75 newtons". In what context would the "2 square seconds" interpretation make sense? Is the unit "square seconds" ever used for anything? > Is "li mo'e lo ki'ogra" the same as "lo ki'ogra"? If "li" and "mo'e" are converse converters, I guess they must be. mu'o mi'e xorxes