In a message dated 9/14/2001 9:13:28 PM Central Daylight Time, nicholas@uci.edu writes:
>And the whole point is that we are much more likely to want to talk about No, but you're more likely to talk about what you're doing next week than about when you were born. Or about next week than the Crusades, for that matter. <> Well, {Pavoso Renanc} isn't someone's (or something's) name for > starters. (a) Says who? A name's a name for anything I please. (b) If I wanted Glorking for dates... Whatever. But even glorking is better than a broken standard> Well, {Pavoso} is not a cmene is all I meant. <> The harder on is to tell that something takes place this October. {li pi'e pano}. Next?> OK, not so hard, though longer than the year case even in DDMMCCYY <And btw, the only sensible thing to say about pi'e, and still keep it with months and days (which we want to), is that it represents "parts". It cannot be just "variable number bases". Variable number bases implies that digit n is number base A, and digit m is number base B; not digit n is number base A, and digit m is number base B for numbers not rhyming with "ember", and C for numbers you can eat lobsters doing. Variable number bases imply arithmetic that makes sense. That's not the case for {pi'e}, so let's just say the definition of {pi'e} shifted the minute it was applied to months, and leave it at that.> Good advice and essentially what has been done historically with the antecedents of {pi'e} back to Babylon. |