Re: [jboske] a number's magnitude

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

Steven:
#And to xorxes (i think):
#> your
#> objection to it seems really to be a more general objection that
#> the overal 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. (nota 
#complaint to you; rather, thanks for pointing out so concisely what's been 
#bugging me for so long.)

There are ways round it, chiefly: 
(i) it must be possible somehow to indicate the magnitude of the initial
digit using gei, though without checking the book, I don't know how
to do it
(ii) introducing an experimental cmavo that indicates counting upwards
from the units, e.g. {zei'a} (< zenba), now added on the wiki.

--And.