From phma@webjockey.net Wed Apr 14 06:24:38 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 64970 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2004 13:24:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2004 13:24:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2004 13:24:38 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1DF9E2C67; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:23:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <194.2732bc22.2dadade0@wmconnect.com> <200404140841.27846.phma@webjockey.net> <20040414131042.GE25720@ccil.org> In-Reply-To: <20040414131042.GE25720@ccil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404140923.05792.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] the 17 tallest men X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22024 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:10, John Cowan wrote: > That works if we say (which is somewhat counterintuitive) that the > height of a mass of men is determined by totaling the heights of > the men inside the mass. It also works if the height of a mass of men is the average of the heights of the men. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa