From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 13 20:14:49 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYZyo-0000Da-U7 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:14:31 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYZym-0000DQ-EN for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:14:30 -0700 Received: from [192.168.25.19] (unknown [192.168.25.19]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2863CE79B for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:14:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: round numbers Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:14:06 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200610131230.01748.phma@phma.optus.nu> <7.0.1.0.2.20061013203357.01b7bf88@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20061013203357.01b7bf88@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610132314.07781.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 12705 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.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Friday 13 October 2006 20:41, Nora LeChevalier wrote: > At 12:29 PM 10/13/2006, Pierre wrote: > >There are two related meanings of "round numbers", neither of which has > >anything to do with round wheels: > >1. Replace numbers with the closest multiples of some number. > >2. Numbers whose prime factors are all small. > >How do you say this in Lojban? > > > >Pierre > > For #1, how about one of these: > ji'i zei namcu > jibni namcu > nalsatci namcu Actually in #1 "round" is a verb. I was thinking of something involving {satci}, but a number can be nalsatci je jibni without being rounded. For instance if I convert kilometers to miles with li fi'u, it's an approximation, but being irrational it is in no way rounded. Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.