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 Content preview:  On 10/02/2013 07:17 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote: > {li pavovo}
    is the Lojban for "The number 144", so "A gross of > (chicken) eggs" could
    be {pavovo jipcyso'a}. > > For "one part in 144", the Lojban {li pa pa'i
   pavovo} means "the > number 1:144", or "The number ratio one in 144", and
   for "1/144", {li > pa fi'u pavovo}. or "The number 1-divided-by-144", "The
    numerical > fraction 1 over 144". [...] 
 
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On 10/02/2013 07:17 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> {li pavovo} is the Lojban for "The number 144", so "A gross of=20
> (chicken) eggs" could be {pavovo jipcyso'a}.
>
> For "one part in 144", the Lojban {li pa pa'i pavovo} means "the=20
> number 1:144", or "The number ratio one in 144", and for "1/144", {li=20
> pa fi'u pavovo}. or "The number 1-divided-by-144", "The numerical=20
> fraction 1 over 144".

If you're more interested in working in base 12, you can say something=20
like {li pano ju'u gai} and {li panono ju'u gai} and so forth.  You can=20
use {li gai} for 12, but it doesn't generalize to a gross nicely...=20
unless you literally say "12=D712" or 12=B2: {li gai pi'i gai} or {li gai=
=20
te'a re}

~mark

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> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Terry Sofian <tsofian@aol.com=20
> <mailto:tsofian@aol.com>> wrote:
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>     Is there a lojban word for 144 or a gross? If there is how would a
>     person say one part in 144 or 1/144?
>     Thanks
>     Terry
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