From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Nov 09 08:00:54 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiCKM-00045W-8z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00:30 -0800 Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiCJs-00044U-HL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528DB14C83E0 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:59:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31723-09 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:59:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [65.77.47.178] (cheyenne.metacarta.com [65.77.47.178]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866DB14C839F for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:59:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4553507C.3030500@ropine.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:59:56 -0500 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban customary measuring units References: <45528614.5000104@phma.optus.nu> <455293C5.9040104@kli.org> <925d17560611090739q1702153dsb66db3e96516f6a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560611090739q1702153dsb66db3e96516f6a1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at metacarta.com X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 12988 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On a related note, I like to think that in Lojbanistan there are 81 fepni in a rupnu, with 1-, 3-, 9-, and 27-fepni coins, because that is the optimal system for making change (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary#Applications). :-) 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.