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* Thursday, 2011-10-20 at 23:25 -0400 - Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:

> On Thursday 20 October 2011 22:06:58 And Rosta wrote:
> > When I was last up-to-date with developments, nothing was official, but=
 I
> > think I can recall the rudiments of our best efforts at that time to
> > construct a consistent and rational gadri system. As far as I now recal=
l,
> > "half an apple" would be "lo pi mu plise", while "pi mu lo plise" would=
 be
> > the "one in every two apples" one.
>=20
> If "pimu lo plise" means "one in every two apples", then "pa lo plise" sh=
ould=20
> mean "every apple".

{pa pi no lo plise} would have to mean "all the apples" (together).

So integers and reals act differently as quantifiers, even when they're
equal as numbers. It's only quite ugly.

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