From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 21 07:26:21 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjDhL-0001fD-2l for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:26:19 -0800 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjDez-0001Fg-B5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:24:02 -0800 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1177014bwz.26 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:23:46 -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=EBXOfrLhvMUs12doGyZBwNhYfw7v+eXg0GzSJa5amfY=; b=Dzc5x7y6iCVe4b/x2M1EmsJKHpK5wzdHCjKBvbnYh/i6KOxudNgL7PyuYdxstEhNmc 6bV8sq4rBudB0ykpJ+IaIL1P3abr/m0vkv0YjovbGweGhxxJO9zyudfkgZit5ezzTW+o t8kDF5ya8m29NQKwoUU6W0vE0xN/AycOphhV8= 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=tketgDVjkfSmlkx7OlAy1HcxXrc5xLN8t9mgPZy4GJseXr1DQ4NpOscz2TMnwNfSve u9qk68mh0E5qBUPKPkQJuTI4EGr/yo8VnzqHj3x6bzBwQL9tEdLq6GHK699uHVUdavTr AvCfou5qWpzJsCBkbbbP3G2wOulEN/46y9pJc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.32.7 with SMTP id a7mr3787782bkd.139.1266765826807; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:23:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4de8c3931002210415t4bcca4c1kd75de109836f051c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4de8c3931002210415t4bcca4c1kd75de109836f051c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:23:46 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17561002210723u262f29fbr5d8822790468e0d4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: MEX remainder 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: 2870 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 Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, tijlan wrote: > How does one express a division remainder in MEX? (CLL seems to have > no example of it.) > > 30 ÷ 7 = 4 ... 2 > li cino fe'i ze du li vo ___ Remainder is not really an operator. 22 ÷ 5 is also "4 with remainder 2", but 30 ÷ 7 and 22 ÷ 5 are not equal, so you can't really use "du" there. You could use "na'u dilcu": li na'u dilcu cino boi ze boi re du li vo li na'u dilcu rere boi mu boi re du li vo Equivalent to: li vo dilcu li cino li ze li re li vo dilcu li rere li mu li re mu'o mi'e xorxes