=A0 =A0 Yeah, I realized that afterwards.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jonathan Jones <ey= eonus@gmail.com> wrote:

That's what he's talking about. In t= he example, the "third" is not due to si'e, but to fi'u.<= div class=3D"HOEnZb">

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 a= t 3:03 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wr= ote:

=A0 =A0 What you are seeing= here is an artifact of English. =A0"nth" here is used not in the= =A0ordinal=A0sense (first, second, third, etc.), but in the sense of a frac= tion (think of three fifTHS, eleven twelfTHs, etc.)

=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 --gejyspa

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 a= t 4:50 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Friday 15 June 2012 13:53:23 guskant= wrote:
> The definition of si'e is inconsistent with its usage. According t= o
> the Complete Lojban Language Chapter 18 (and also to jbovlaste), si= 9;e
> is defined as:
> =A0 =A0x1 is an (n)th portion of mass x2.
> The example shows however that si'e itself does not imply fi'u= (an (n)th):
> =A0 =A011.8) =A0 =A0levi sanmi cu fi'ucisi'e lei mi djedi cidj= a
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0This-here meal is-a-slash-three-portion-of my day-food.=
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0This meal is one-third of my daily food.
> Guessing from the example, the definition of si'e must be:
> =A0 =A0x1 is n times portion of mass x2.
> n is a positive real number or 0, or may be simply a real number. I > can't imagine the case that n is a complex number, but it might be=
> mathematically possible.

Sounds good to me. You may want to add a note that, normally, n is 0<= br> ga'obi'iga'o 1.

Pierre

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