Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LWv3d-00043f-5C for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:01:57 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LWv3Y-00043A-W8 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:01:57 -0800 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090210160146.QWKW18810.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@chausie> for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CED921A for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:45 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: numbers Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <200902100842.54506.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902101101.43698.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1321 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 583 On Tuesday 10 February 2009 10:37:36 Roman Salmin wrote: > > Can you figure out what number "cira'epi" is? It is valid, but in a kind > > of mathematics you may not know about > > I am not sure about meaning of "ra'e" by using the dictionary and your > mail. > Is "cira'epi" means literally infinity numbers of "3" and then "." ? then > why "pi"? > It can be transfinite number or supernatural. It's -1/3 in the 10-adic numbers (fatysaclu be fi li 10 namcu). ...33333×3 is ...99999, which is -1. 10 is not normally used as a p-adic base, though, since it isn't prime. Pierre