From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Oct 11 05:54:09 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kodyz-00076q-0p for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:54:09 -0700 Received: from cpe-071-075-215-096.carolina.res.rr.com ([71.75.215.96] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kodyw-000765-CL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:54:08 -0700 Received: from chausie (chausie.ixazon.lan [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E704FCF301 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:53:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Numerical questions Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:53:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810110853.56473.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 22 X-Spam-Bar: ++ X-archive-position: 14835 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 Saturday 11 October 2008 08:24:48 jozis. wrote: > Numerical questions > > Author: jozis. > > Supposing I were to say (for example), 'li reci'. Under most circumstances, > this would be assumed to be in base-ten, and mean twenty-three. Most of the > time this is clearly what is meant. However, there are some cases, and the > example I would give is memory addresses in assembly-language programming > and such, where one might need to specify the radix. In the memory-address > example, decimal is probably not what is meant, but it could equally be > octal (nineteen) or hex (thirty-five). Is there some way of unambiguously > specifying the radix in Lojban? You use the operator {ju'u}, which is different from the other operators in that the left side is interpreted as me'o rather than li (so if the left side is a result of an operation it's not clear what that means). > My second question is a little less crucial. Going back to base-ten, ten is > 'li pano' and 'one hundred' is 'li panono'. By the time we get to > 'panonono' for 'one thousand' it is getting a bit unwieldy, but fortunately > we have 'ki'o' to help us out. 'li paki'oki'o' is not too bad for 'one > million', but for larger numbers even this is a bit cumbersome. Am I > missing a concise way to represent (for example) 10^15? There's {petso}, but that's a brivla. There's a word that turns non-number phrases into numbers. 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.