From - Thu Feb 29 11:29:55 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id UAA25607 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:53:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199602290153.UAA25607@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 10994717 ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:16:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:20:42 -0300 Reply-To: "Jorge J. Llambias" Sender: Lojban list From: "Jorge J. Llambias" Subject: Re: kamkuspe To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 685 la stivn cusku di'e > Is there some slick way that I can say: > >"The paint is fuzzily 2 of 5, where 0/5 is red and 5/5 is yellow." > >Ideas? How about: le cinta cu klani li ji'irefi'umu le kamxunre bi'o le kampelxu The paint is approximately 2/5 on the ordered interval from red to yellow. >I am wondering about the fraction or slash cmavo. Is there an official >position on whether this cmavo means division? Or can it mean 2 of 5 as I >used above? & and lojbab seemed to disagree on this point. I don't see the difference. I would understand it in the same way if you say that the paint is 0.4 on the interval that goes from red to yellow. Jorge