From pycyn@aol.com Wed May 30 06:10:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 13:10:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5807 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 13:10:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 13:10:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r02.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.98) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 13:10:37 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.ac.15c3c90d (17080) for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:10:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:10:29 EDT Subject: RE: Number base To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_ac.15c3c90d.28464b45_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7364 --part1_ac.15c3c90d.28464b45_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't understand what the problems are here, aside from the initial one. {saclu} is a fifth-grade word (maybe earlier now) for getting .r out of n/m, with the added charm of allowing something other than base-10 systems. And "base n" is about systems of symbols, numerals, not about numbers, which are the same however they are symbolized 16v10 = 10v16 = 20v8 = 10000v2 = 121v3 (sorry, Lojban puts the base always in decimal notation). --part1_ac.15c3c90d.28464b45_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't understand what the problems are here, aside from the initial one.
{saclu} is a fifth-grade word (maybe earlier now) for getting .r out of n/m,
with the added charm of allowing something other than base-10 systems.
And "base n" is about systems of symbols, numerals, not about numbers, which
are the same however they are symbolized  16v10 = 10v16 = 20v8 = 10000v2 =
121v3 (sorry, Lojban puts the base always in decimal notation). --part1_ac.15c3c90d.28464b45_boundary--