Re: [jboske] RE: [lojban] djedi li integer

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> I wonder if {su'o pi no} and {su'o pi su'o} could be given special
> meanings of '[some] integer' and '[some] rational' respectively. Do they have
> other more useful meanings?

I think using "su'o" is problematic, basically because of the very strong
default that su'o cannot mean 0 (unless there is an explicit negative
value following). So nopino seems like an improper value for su'opino,
yet 0 is a good integer.

I propose tu'opino instead.

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