Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIpww-0002fY-I6 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:23 -0800 Received: from mail-gx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.217.210]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIpwo-0002bP-LK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:19 -0800 Received: by gxk2 with SMTP id 2so308997gxk.4 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=K5ZS6VFu5ibIwVRh1EKG60La/RGx1YGhNbrqmxMx5xk=; b=JocB2S7LYA3MjRB4DNlFx3b4KdFbTkBmNXUjle7wIFjz+aWKumcZMBLrH3Sruq9VAD 1fhnBdMj5w4hUtFmh7F2QyJsg0r0oI99mKBd6zHTbr5EiJboCTLwvYgs88gUuzMkQvkb dJQTqTGJDedFqGaZ5SNLmJLrjk/+27lBeRTrM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=TK3HGFkG9DyZFQVHc172INVC97giqtxl1aFa5QcrsrgSOwF0Qsvd3vihN43FNnw+5E WVQchnhRo4zZph+UjMiuF7vevefPcKvQ9jmeg0BR1xuKqGAtB9GJKzuHmrwDM4DiypZv s7OMy4oodoX5BegbaXSGP34NAKR1VF0SOUBwE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.161.21 with SMTP id n21mr707948ago.39.1260478147562; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:49:07 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5ccf427ef1c4621a Message-ID: <429fde40912101249s24079419g2804c566b311b2a2@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] On units and mekso From: Joshua Choi To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 2636 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: joshua@choi.name Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 349 From my limited knowledge of Lojban, it seems that a Lojban speaker is able to express units only using certain selbri, such as grake and bunda for mass. How, then, would you best express this in Lojban? 3 kilograms times 5 metres divided by 2 seconds to the second power equals 7.5 Newtons. Can units be attached to number quantities at all?