From araizen@newmail.net Thu Sep 27 14:42:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 21:40:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 19602 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 21:40:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 21:40:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgw2.netvision.net.il) (194.90.1.9) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 21:42:01 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (ras1-p96.rvt.netvision.net.il [62.0.180.96]) by mailgw2.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA01207 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:42:00 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <05ed01c1479d$64ebd820$d8b5003e@oemcomputer> To: "lojban list" References: Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:09:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Adam Raizen" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11130 James F. Carter wrote: > Drifting off topic again: in heptal or duodecimal or decimal or hex or > whatever, how do you write the radix? 10, of course. The solution I used > in the proprietary radix extension was to have the user specify radix-1, > that is, 6 -> heptal, f -> hex, 9 -> decimal, etc. Since the number one is the only thing that all radices have in common, you can write heptal "pasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipa", hex as "pasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipa su'ipasu'ipasu'ipasu'ipa", etc. If you can be sure that a single digit is unambiguous (I've seen T and E used for the extra digits in duodecimal, though in Lojban this probably won't be a problem up to hex), then you could use (radix-1)+1. mu'o mi'e .adam.