From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Wed Feb 12 15:14:55 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 12 Feb 92 15:14 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA01944; Wed, 12 Feb 92 15:09:44 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA15891; Wed, 12 Feb 92 14:46:46 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA26097; Wed, 12 Feb 92 14:46:30 EST Message-Id: <9202121946.AA26097@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 4966; Wed, 12 Feb 92 14:43:14 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 5860; Wed, 12 Feb 92 14:40:58 EST Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 12:52:16 EST Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Billions X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9202112034.AA15637@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>; from "Chris Handley" at Feb 12, 92 8:29 am Status: RO la kris. xandlis. cusku di'e > However, seeing Lojban has > got the prefixes for these, it would be useful if psuedo-number > words could be made from them, even if only to help future Lojbani > physicists - it would be much easier to say 3 Attons than 3 times > ten to the fifteen. Actually, 3 times 10 to the 15th power is incredibly terse in Lojban: pa mu gei ci one five [scientific] three The usual order is reversed, placing the order-of-magnitude first, to make it easy to say numbers like "trillion": gei pa bi 10 to the 18th power or gei pa re 10 to the 12th power -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban