From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Wed Sep 22 04:25:09 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CA5Eg-0007WV-RL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:24:35 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 884D853C9; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:24:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: fractions Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:24:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <8a.15bd704a.2e82b504@wmconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <8a.15bd704a.2e82b504@wmconnect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409220724.03183.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8647 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wednesday 22 September 2004 06:59, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > If "pimu" (.5) is to be used for 1/2 (which practice I abhor), then how is > a number like 1/3 to be expressed? Or 1/17, for a more complicated > example. li pimu du li fi'ure .i li pira'eci du li fi'uci .i li pira'enomubibirecimure sovopapazexavoze du li fi'upaze (Yes, I know that one cold. At least in English.) mu'omi'e .pier. -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa