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Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder



Pierre Abbat wrote:

I think {ju'u} is in the wrong selma'o. All other binary mex operands take two numbers and return a number. {ju'u} takes a naclerpoi and a number and returns a number.

ze bi'esu'i bi pi'i so = (7+8)*9
ze bi'esu'i bi ju'u so = ?
is it 14 (which is written 15 in base 9) or what?

It's nonsense. The reason ju'u is an operator rather than a
PA is to allow talking about variable bases:
(10 base b) - 1 = 10 base (b - 1), e.g. But the left operand can't
be anything but a digit string: (a+b) base c is just nonsense.

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