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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] "three times as big"
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:53:08 -0500
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On Saturday, February 08, 2014 01:39:29 Felipe Gon=E7alves Assis wrote:
> This sentence from oz made me think:
> {lo m=E0rce cu br=E0mau ro lo sm=E0cu poi pu'o l=E0cpu my ku'o fo lo p=EC=
lji be li
> ki'o}
>=20
> It is fine as it is, but I guess the intended meaning is "the vehicle was=
 a
> thousand times bigger than each rat", while it means something like "1001
> times bigger", since zmadu4 is the difference.
>=20
> This is irrelevant for big inexact numbers, but what if I wanted to say,
> e.g., "three times bigger"? Would I have to say {bramau fo lo pilji be li
> re}? What about "three times smaller"? Should I use logarithms?
>=20
> For round numbers, we have gismu like {kilto}, so we can say, e.g.
> {lo marce cu braki'o ro lo smacu}. What about other numbers? Can we devis=
e
> a lujvo schema?

lo nilbra be lo xruki cu pilji li ci lo nilbra be lo jipci
This is three times as big, not three times bigger (which is four times as=
=20
big).

Pierre
--=20
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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