Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rFH8n-00006wC; Wed, 7 Dec 94 09:50 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7436; Wed, 07 Dec 94 09:50:32 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7434; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 09:50:30 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4009; Wed, 7 Dec 1994 08:47:11 +0100 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 02:48:40 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: hex digits To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 24 >From: Chris Bogart >Subject: Re: cmavo hit list - lojbab responds > >Lojbab said: >>IF we want to allow for the possibility of using such systems without >>the bias for decimals of the current system, they need to be >>monosyllables. And I have always abhorred the use of alphabetics for >>these numbers. > >Do you have something else you prefer, or do you think A-F is the best >alternative, given the ASCII character set and similar limitations? >Would you use punctuation marks? or create new symbols? Maybe with >Unicode it will be possible to introduce something new. I have no proposals regarding the modification of international or other conventions for writing mathematical language - I am not a reformer - I just try to cope with it (if someone else successfully proposes an alternate symbol that gets adopted in the non-Lojban world, I wouldn't be unhappy). The lerfu .abu. in the middle of a numerical text has more than one plausible meaning than as a hex digit. I want a way to read that symbol off that is consistent with its role as a digit of specific value. lojbab