From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jul 21 19:03:04 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICQml-000417-PB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:03:04 -0700 Received: from 25.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.37.103]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICQme-00040i-UJ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:03:03 -0700 Received: (qmail 4873 invoked by uid 503); 22 Jul 2007 02:03:17 -0000 Received: (QMFILT: 1.0); 22 Jul 2007 02:03:17 -0000 Received: from b6.ovh.net (HELO mail234.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.56) by 25.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 22 Jul 2007 02:03:17 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 22 Jul 2007 02:02:54 -0000 Received: from 166.26-225-89.dsl.completel.net (166.26-225-89.dsl.completel.net [89.225.26.166]) by ssl0.ovh.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:02:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1185069774.46a2bace6a4b1@ssl0.ovh.net> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:02:54 +0200 From: m.kornig@sondal.net To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Number systems References: <46A271DF.3090200@gmail.com> <200707212102.06381.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200707212102.06381.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 89.225.26.166 X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5259 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: m.kornig@sondal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Selon Pierre Abbat : > 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}. I don't know many people who use the hexadecimal system. {ju'u pano} is probably more frequent. Martin