a number's magnitude

[bestatn@aol.com]

In a message dated 2002-10-14 8:11:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jboske@yahoogroups.com writes:

And to xorxes (i think):
> your
> objection to it seems really to be a more general objection that
> the overally magnitude of a number cannot be apprehended until
> the entire number has been parsed.


this has been one of my objections to loglan's/lojban's number system all along, back before i even knew about lojban.  i still don't like it.  (not a complaint to you; rather, thanks for pointing out so concisely what's been bugging me for so long.)
steven