Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkJFJ-0003gS-3y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:52:41 -0700 Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.141]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkJF1-0003fc-5L for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:52:28 -0700 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAPaIHUfLevEl/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,317,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="213089643" Received: from ppp241-37.static.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.0.2]) ([203.122.241.37]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 23 Oct 2007 22:21:53 +0930 Message-ID: <471DEE68.3010705@houseofholden.net> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:21:52 +0930 From: Lance Holden Organization: Holden Home User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Hexadecimal number names Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -9 X-Spam-Bar: - X-archive-position: 5531 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lance@houseofholden.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 624 Hi all, I'm new to the language (and hence this list). As a programmer I find the function/argument approach of the language fascinating and it seems to me more natural to learn than a 'natural' language (though I may rethink this the more I try to learn). The first thing I'm interested in; I've read of the debate about whether lojban should use base-10 or base-16 numbers. I see the list of base-10 numerals but I haven't seen anything for a base-16 number. Is there an extra set of number words (something past so)? Or are abu. by. cy. (or tcy.), etc. used like the computer hex does (A-F for 10-15)? Lance.