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[lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso
- From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:49:57 -0300
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> wrote:
> From my limited knowledge of Lojban, it seems that a Lojban speaker is
> able to express units only using certain selbri, such as grake and
> bunda for mass. How, then, would you best express this in Lojban?
>
> 3 kilograms times 5 metres divided by 2 seconds to the second power
> equals 7.5 Newtons.
lo pilji be lo ki'ogra be li 3 be'o bei lo dilcu be lo mitre be li 5
be'o bei lo tenfa be lo snidu be li 2 be'o bei li 2 cu du lo
klanrniutoni be li 7.5
Only it's actually 3.75 newtons. :)
> Can units be attached to number quantities at all?
mekso are not a very developed part of the language.
mu'o mi'e xorxes