From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 22 14:26:54 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 44081 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2004 21:26:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m21.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Sep 2004 21:26:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2004 21:26:54 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA05339; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:39 -0400 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040922212639.GC21102@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <8a.15bd704a.2e82b504@wmconnect.com> <20040922182413.GK1650@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040922182413.GK1650@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: fractions X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23070 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > I personally loathe fi'u, because it's in PA instead of VUhU, which > makes things not work as you'd expect at *all*. For example, (1+2) > over (2+3) can't be done using fi'u: Fi'u is meant to be used to make simple fractions, not for generalized division. It's so you can say things like three-and-a-half without worrying about operator priority. -- Where the wombat has walked, John Cowan it will inevitably walk again. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan