Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Thu, 27 Feb 92 13:07 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA07170; Thu, 27 Feb 92 13:04:24 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA28596; Thu, 27 Feb 92 12:59:53 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA12660; Thu, 27 Feb 92 12:56:17 EST Message-Id: <9202271756.AA12660@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 5433; Thu, 27 Feb 92 12:54:52 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 4518; Thu, 27 Feb 92 12:53:43 EST Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 06:29:15 CST Reply-To: Rick Miller Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Miller Subject: dates X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Feb 27 13:07:27 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Logical Language Group writes: [clip!] > and if I want to meet you on the 28th, I don't want to have to say in > Lojban that I will meet you on the -/-/28th).) > > lojbab Ahh! I hadn't considered this. "Significance" is determined by *use* rather than by magnitude. Hmmm... I suppose that holds true with numbers as well, since most (except a very few truly-random-number-seekers) are more interested in the digits of higher magnitude, and indeed these are what are retained through numerical ellipsis (rounding). Rick Miller