From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 22 14:00:04 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CAED7-0003Hs-7D for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:59:33 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:59:33 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: fractions Message-ID: <20040922205933.GB12534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200409220724.03183.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8659 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:55:09PM -0000, doug wrote: > --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 06:59, MorphemeAddict@w... 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.) > > ii xo namcu lerfu cu se morji do li pai .i mi ponse lo kanji minji .u'i sai -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"