From sentto-44114-3468-962998945-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri Jul 07 19:40:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 16283 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:40:48 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:40:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 27502 invoked by uid 40001); 7 Jul 2000 19:42:42 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 27499 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:42:42 -0000 Received: from hl.egroups.com (208.50.99.197) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:42:42 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3468-962998945-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by hl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2000 19:42:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 1201 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01711; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <00070622055102.00877@neofelis> Message-ID: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote: > For the p-adic numbers or the objects called "brenoms" in French, I propose > using "sera'e". Thus, in base 7, li no pi ra'e pa dunli li mu sera'e pi > (0.1111... = ...55555.), both being 1/6. A clever idea, but we are constrained by our grammar, which forbids "sera'e". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lonely? Get Firetalk! Free, unlimited calls anywhere in the world. Free voice chat on hundreds of topics. http://click.egroups.com/1/5477/4/_/17627/_/962998945/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com