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Re: [lojban-beginners] "Boolean" in Lojban



He may be talking about base-2 numeric representation, such as bytes, but that's not boolean.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

Wait, what?!  In what system can a boolean have more than 2 values?

On May 20, 2011 4:33 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2011 13:20:13 Oleksii Melnyk wrote:
>> "Variables" can be constant/immutable, so "cne" is a bit wrong. It should
>> (jez|jet|jif)(lei|lai|tai) (cmene|tcita), IMHO.
>
> Something that is Boolean is not necessarily a variable. Nor does it
> necessarily have only two values, though if it takes a finite number of
> values, the number is a power of two. I think the word for "Boolean" should
> be a fu'ivla.
>
> Pierre
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