[lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari)

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:01:06AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:37:17AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > I don't see numbers containing letters or lerfu strings with
> > > numbers used much or at all. It would be better to have to add
> > > glue for those rather than forcing boi in the above
> > > situations.
> > 
> > It's going to get used a lot in math, very likely.
> 
> I don't think that convenience in a hypothetical math usage should
> trump convenience in everyday usage. 

Granted.

> Still, strings with numbers would remain easy: {uburebu} instead
> of {ubure} for U2, and there is no arbitrary restriction to the
> number being in first position: {cibumy} for 3M.

<nod>

> Numbers with letters as digits would not be so straightforward,
> but what would they be used for? The usual talk of using letters
> for the units of dimensioned numbers is nonsense because units
> don't work like that in Lojban.

I've never heard 'the usual talk'.  You mean things like "li pa re
my" for 12 meters?

-Robin

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