From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Oct 11 05:24:51 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KodWd-0005Vp-Tk for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:51 -0700 Received: from dsl081-066-183.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.66.183] helo=pinfu.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KodWa-0005VN-Ra for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:51 -0700 Received: from www-data by pinfu.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KodWa-0000ex-L1 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:48 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Numerical questions X-PHP-Script: www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-view_forum.php for 93.96.126.143 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "jozis." Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:24:48 -0700 X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14834 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban-out@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Numerical questions Author: jozis. Supposing I were to say (for example), 'li reci'. Under most circumstances, this would be assumed to be in base-ten, and mean twenty-three. Most of the time this is clearly what is meant. However, there are some cases, and the example I would give is memory addresses in assembly-language programming and such, where one might need to specify the radix. In the memory-address example, decimal is probably not what is meant, but it could equally be octal (nineteen) or hex (thirty-five). Is there some way of unambiguously specifying the radix in Lojban? My second question is a little less crucial. Going back to base-ten, ten is 'li pano' and 'one hundred' is 'li panono'. By the time we get to 'panonono' for 'one thousand' it is getting a bit unwieldy, but fortunately we have 'ki'o' to help us out. 'li paki'oki'o' is not too bad for 'one million', but for larger numbers even this is a bit cumbersome. Am I missing a concise way to represent (for example) 10^15? 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.