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

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djan cusku di'e

> I don't agree. 22.0 is an integer and, of course, a real number.
> The fact that (most) computer languages want to give 22 one representation
> and 22.0 a different one is neither here nor there.

I wasn't thinking of computer langauges, it didn't even
occur to me. If you say {ji'i 22.0}, I will think "some
real number around 22.0", if you say "ji'i 22", I will
think "some integer around 22", unless context says that
reals are allowed. But {ji'i 22.0} definitely says that
reals are in play, without any additional context needed.

> > >I propose tu'opino instead.
> >
> > I wouldn't take {tu'o} as a digit either,
>
> I don't see why not.

For the moment, it's just a general feeling of rejection.

Another possibility to signal integers is prefixing {ro},
which strictly only makes sense with integers.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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