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[lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage
At 09:30 AM 3/26/04 -0800, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
>--- Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> > At 09:53 AM 3/25/04 -0800, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> > >Letters as digits don't make much sense anyway.
> > >They are certainly not worth the trouble in boi's that they
> > >cost us.
> >
> > Tell it to the people who came up with the idea of using letters for hex
> > digits. Lojban has cmavo for the 6 hex digits, but for higher bases, it
> > seems that history has indicated the use of lerfu as the convention.
>
>But Lojban can't handle higher bases that way! Every number
>must start with a member of PA, so letters can only be used
>for other-than-the-first digit.
For operands, and therefore in most of MEX, lerfu strings and quantifiers
are interchangeable. I'll admit to not thinking about using odd bases as
quantifiers on sumti (or maybe I did and Cowan took it out when he
redesigned MEX - can't remember and it doesn't much matter now since it's
been this way at least a dozen years), so using a lerfu initial quantifier
requires "vei" preceding (vei is optional with pure PA numbers), but is
still usable.
I never considered the use of boi to be that problematical, especially
since it can be required sometimes even with pure numbers (JCB's classic
example was "five 55-gallon drums").
lojbab
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