| In a message dated 3/12/2001 6:00:28 PM Central Standard Time,
lojban@lojban.org writes: <There is no grammar for numbers so that is a string of 4 Ambigous: "there is no grammar for numbers. Therefore, panono is a string of four digits, the first of which is large. The first part of this is false, I hope, and the second in this context, seems to mean there cannot be grammatical numbers more than a digit long, especially if the first is large(r than the rest?). "No part of the grammar of numbers allows a number to be a string of digits, if the first is large" I suppose "large" in both these cases means something special, in this case PA4? Somehow, I had the notion that "at least 100" was {su'o panono} I now gather that it is {panono su'o}. So, "almost 100" is going to be {panono so'a} <>I have no suggestion for "barely over 100" off the top of mu head. panoso'u> But then {panonosu'o} means "a whole lot more than a thousand" or some such, and the other PA+PA4 get really weird. <soso'a or even soda'a or if you want the base n solution, da'ada'a I might also try panononi'u,> I'm lost. What does "all except 9" or "almost 9" have to do with the cases and what does? What does "all except all except" have to do with base n? and -100 with anything. Except that they all show that the PA4s go at the right end. <You don't ride a train, you ride a train-car.> Sensible. It should be on the list someday soon. |