From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Tue Feb 11 22:37:36 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 92 22:37 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA00161; Tue, 11 Feb 92 20:36:57 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA21730; Tue, 11 Feb 92 20:22:04 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA05578; Tue, 11 Feb 92 18:08:15 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA20343; Tue, 11 Feb 92 18:05:58 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (via uunet.UU.NET) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA11955; Tue, 11 Feb 92 15:59:03 -0500 Message-Id: <9202112059.AA11955@relay2.UU.NET> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2936; Tue, 11 Feb 92 15:57:44 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 7949; Tue, 11 Feb 92 15:56:53 EST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 08:23:19 CST Reply-To: Rick Miller Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Miller Subject: Re: Digit strings X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO > Given Lojban's kill-one-bird-with-many-stones principle, I wonder whether > the option of listing digits in order of increasing magnitude has been > considered. I.e. 1,234,567,890 comes out as 0987654321. While we're at it, let's do a quick compression and append a checksum! oisai Richard (Rick) Miller, Room A516 Internet: discus!rick@uwm.edu Wisconsin Electric Power Company rick@ee.uwm.edu 333 West Everett Street Voice: +1 414 221 3403 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203 USA FAX: +1 414 221 3779