bi'i (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Xorxes:
> la pier cusku di'e
> 
> >2 or 3, where you mean somewhere between 2 and 3, is 2 bi'i 3, with ji'i
> >thrown in if you want to say explicitly that the interval is fuzzy.
> 
> Do you make any distinction between the interval [2,3], and
> some value within that interval?
> 
> If {2 bi'i 3} is a value in [2,3], how do you refer to the interval?

In what contexts is the interval meaning useful?

Am I right in thinking that you take bi'i to yield the interval,
and (somehow, I don't grasp the rationale yet) use ji'i to get
the value in the interval (as opposed to treating the following
digits as approximate?

--And.