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[lojban-beginners] Re: Numbercrunching...
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Numbercrunching...
- From: "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:58:07 -0300
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On 8/1/08, Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 4. li repa pi'e ze pi'e pasoxaso
> I guess the difference in knowing whether a string of numbers like
> that is a date or time, lies in the last number in this case 'pasoxaso'.
> Pasoxaso is 1969, so this should be a date. After all 21:07:1969
> doesn't really exist as a time, we don't have 1969 seconds. But if there
> was written 'paso', it would have been a time and definitely no date.
> (Right?)(so we can't abbreviate dates to e.g. 21-07-69 ?)
Since the context would almost invariably be "de'i li ..." or "ti'u li ...",
there probably can't be much confusion between dates and times
anyway. More problematic is knowing whether 08-07-06 is a big-endian
or a little-endian date.
mu'o mi'e xorxes