On 11/9/06, Seth Gordon <sethg@ropine.com> wrote:
On a related note, I like to think that in Lojbanistan there are 81 fepni in a rupnu, with 1-, 3-, 9-, and 27-fepni coins, because that is the optimal system for making change (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary#Applications). :-)
But before that efficient system was introduced, the monetary subunit was the cenru'u, as in the old saying: lo dinynei cu xenru .u'u lo nu xaksu lo cenru'u mu'o mi'e xorxes