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Re: [lojban] repeating decimals

To: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>
Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@egroups.com
In-reply-to: <00070622055102.00877@neofelis>

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> For the p-adic numbers or the objects called "brenoms" in French, I propose
> using "sera'e". Thus, in base 7, li no pi ra'e pa dunli li mu sera'e pi
> (0.1111... = ...55555.), both being 1/6.

A clever idea, but we are constrained by our grammar, which forbids
"sera'e".

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