Re: [lojban] fagricipni is back

[lojban707@fagricipni.com]

On Sun, September 25, 2011 3:19 pm, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2011 09:59:38 lojban707@fagricipni.com wrote:
>> There is one question that I have thought of while translating the one
>> on
>> numbers that I would like to ask the computer scientists: would nalna'u
>> be
>> a good word for NaN?
>
> I think so, but it is a selbri, not a number. To make it a (syntactic)
> number,
> precede it with "ni'e". To make a selbri out of a number, precede it with
> "me
> li".

I had forgotten about the "me li" to make a selbri a number,
though once you mentioned it I did remember.  Now, making a
number out of a selbri, I never knew that apparently; though
I was thinking more about talking *about* NaNs, for which a
selbri would be appropriate; however, it would definitely be a
good idea for me to mention the fact that it can not be used in
a numeric context without the mechanisms you describe in what I
am writing.

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