Re: [lojban-beginners] plus or minus

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 15 March 2011 08:19:16 Luke Bergen wrote:
> If I want to say "5 plus or minus 2" what is the quickest way to do that in
> lojban.  I looked through PA* and didn't see anything useful.
>
> Note:  I'm not looking for {li su'o ci su'e ze}.  This I would translate as
> (somewhere between 3 and 7).  I'm looking for a quick and clean way to say
> "5 but I could be wrong by as much as 2 in either direction".

"li mu mi'i re". If you use "mu mi'i re" as a quantifier in a sumti, you have 
to say "vei", e.g. "mi viska vei mu mi'i re". To use the number itself as a 
sumti, say for example "mi mitre li papimu mi'i pinore".

mu'omi'e pier.
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