From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jun 20 14:01:58 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MI7hG-0004X6-O1 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:58 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com ([209.85.217.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MI7hD-0004Vt-Io for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:58 -0700 Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so9982419gxk.10 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=B6hIzkYVjdUz5yXG5i0tE8w1iTvXmx0RVX80kt4e1hM=; b=jJVlROH3pnrH0T/pmstiIp3jb0QG4qWZvebXJo2LCsSpj32tDwFJcHJTBSgwPUKIn+ +uihp7uB2aCFiyK6bPCcbaZhzymE0QODDSSSuwt/Vlnt8gMqA2fEkbOzKWv6xORCQmXM 8rQTVeRxpAb65CvuaXKAZflaOdFDfjyBU+09c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=Qx3Qbs59sRmdJTxqc/tx22rEmvwkfaZX6m/kxm8cySktaAPrwzEW0zH+jeM/yil/Jb gi2kCP+QQh1/KuPZ2pQytpoyJ42bmBTAZueW1j3bpOr94jj3g9dV+hLWu+Htim90a6Zc XhMaFvdnSJ8eTLN+LskNgkqgBbmyh97mR9QSw= Received: by 10.150.219.20 with SMTP id r20mr8306835ybg.292.1245531709262; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.1.199? (c-68-36-61-127.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.36.61.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm117401ywi.33.2009.06.20.14.01.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <74417AB6-3684-4161-AC71-3BE12FF3240F@gmail.com> From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <23f4e3390906200212j5dc389c5i87ee3bd22ac56a9a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: comment structure Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:01:18 -0400 References: <23f4e3390906200212j5dc389c5i87ee3bd22ac56a9a@mail.gmail.com> X-archive-position: 1858 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 20 pi'e 06 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. David Gowers .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > I was writing about a numeric encoding system and eventually wrote this: > > li no ga'o bi'o ga'o vo nosomu pi sososomupapazepabizemu cu nacyja'e > sekai le papamei jetka'usatci va'i se'i li pa fi'u renovobi > > in English: > numeric-result is in range [0 .. 4095.99951171875]. > with-property 11 bit-precision - in other words 1 / 2048 ... > Is this appropriate? 'and in other words 1/2048' seems still a bit odd. > I really just want to specify '11 bit-precision, in other words > 1/2048'; is that un-lojbanic or am I just ignorant ? :) .skamyxatra "{va'i}" and "{se'i}" both belong to {selma'o} UI, so they act as attitudinals/indicators and do not start new structures; thus, "{li pa fi'u renovobi}" simply fills the x2 place of "{nacyja'e}." I think the suggested way to say what you're trying to say is with a parenthetical: "... {sekai le papamei jetka'usatci to va'i se'i li pa fi'u renovobi toi}." mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- do la terjvi ganai pensi gi fliba