[lojban-beginners] Re: Number systems

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:

> On Saturday 21 July 2007 16:51, Martin Welgemoed wrote:
> > How do you say which number system you mean.
> >
> > For example: .i li papa could mean 17 in hexadecimal and 11 in decimal.
>
> Use {ju'u} followed by the base: {li papa ju'u paxa}. The first operand of
> {ju'u} has to be digits, not the result of an operation, else you have
> something that may be grammatical but meaningless, such as {li te'o bi'e te'a
> pai ju'u paxa}.

I don't know many people who use the
hexadecimal system. {ju'u pano} is probably
more frequent.

Martin