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Subject: [lojban] Re: 5/6%
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>
> lo nu pilno lo kramu .e lo gutci peseba'i lo treci'e cu rinka lo nu srera la'u
> li mufi'uxace'i
> The context is the Rational Method, a method for computing the amount of
> runoff in a storm. In the US, customarily, the area is in acres, the rainfall
> is in inches per hour, and the runoff is in cubic feet per second. This
> bizarre combination of units happens to be off by less than 1%, to be exact,
> a ratio of 121/120. Is "mufi'uxace'i" correct? Or is it 83+1/3?
>
> Pierre

  I'd say that was correct.  In the absence of  vei/ve'o, it should be
left to right grouping

                    --gy


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