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la .and. is correct that my goat example has nothing to do with degrees of
precision; I conflated two issues.  On the one hand, unmarked numbers
are >exact< in Lojban; "pare" means "exactly 12", not "about 12", which is
"ji'ipare" or perhaps "paji'ire" (the latter signifies that the "1" digit
is exact and the "2" digit approximate).

On the other hand, unmarked numbers used as quantifiers are taken to be
>complete enumerations< of what they quantify, so a millipede does not have
two legs in Lojban; that would entail that it had no more and no less than
two.