From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Oct 13 18:51:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 27409 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2006 01:49:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.67.33) by m39.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Oct 2006 01:49:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2006 01:49:46 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYYe1-00078b-OW for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:48:57 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYYcw-00077x-04; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:47:53 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYYcU-00077m-Pf for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:47:22 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GYYcQ-00077f-P0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:47:22 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B449794790 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:47:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:47:06 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no In-Reply-To: <200610131230.01748.phma@phma.optus.nu> Message-ID: References: <200610131230.01748.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 12703 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Arnt Richard Johansen From: Arnt Richard Johansen Reply-To: arj@nvg.org Subject: [lojban] Re: round numbers X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=17KE4GR45uPFWEX5c7fSULGcafZxnoky0MwZdYuzpRxs0xVdHA X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 27140 On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 2. Numbers whose prime factors are all small. > How do you say this in Lojban? The problem with this seems to be that the Lojban gismu {pilji} expresses a product of but two factors. If we had a brivla that meant "x1 is a product of factors x2", we could simply say "broda be lo cmalu ku po'o". It is not entirely clear to me how to best construct such a brivla. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ There is a great deal of drinking in Japan, unbridled by licensing hours. It forms an important part of semi-official end of work or business negotiations [...], but is also rampant without any such excuse. -- Ballhatchet, Kaiser: Teach Yourself Japanese To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.