From sentto-44114-3478-963016726-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Sat Jul 08 00:36:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 16650 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 00:36:52 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 00:36:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 8624 invoked by uid 40001); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:47 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 8621 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:47 -0000 Received: from ck.egroups.com (208.50.144.69) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 00:38:47 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3478-963016726-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.36] by ck.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 20524 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.194) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 54179 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000708003845.54178.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.154.168 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:38:45 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.154.168] To: lojban@egroups.com From: "Jorge Llambias" 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, 07 Jul 2000 17:38:45 PDT Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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". You could use {li mura'epi}. I don't think {ra'e} has any meaning assigned when used before {pi}. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Conference Calling with Firetalk! Click Here! http://click.egroups.com/1/5480/4/_/17627/_/963016726/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com