[lojban-beginners] Re: MEX remainder

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2010/2/21 Jorge LlambÃas <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How does one express a division remainder in MEX? (CLL seems to have
>> no example of it.)
>>
>> 30 Ã 7 = 4 ... 2
>> li cino fe'i ze du li vo ___
>
> Remainder is not really an operator. 22 Ã 5 is also "4 with remainder
> 2", but 30 Ã 7 and 22 Ã 5 are not equal, so you can't really use "du"
> there.
>
> You could use "na'u dilcu":
>
> li na'u dilcu cino boi ze boi re du li vo
> li na'u dilcu rere boi mu boi re du li vo
>
> Equivalent to:
>
> li vo dilcu li cino li ze li re
> li vo dilcu li rere li mu li re

ua u'aro'e ki'esai

I have another relevant question. Is the following translations of
Esperanto correct?

dudek du super kvin
rere fi'u mu

kvinono de tio
fi'u mu ti

dudek du da kvinono de tio
rere fi'u mu ti