[lojban] Re: [Archivist] Mathematical gismu.

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

Not even slightly helpful.  The former is agentive, which I was
explicitely trying to avoid, and the latter is not mathematical
division, it is the formation of a mathematical fraction.

You think, perhaps, that I didn't search the word list first?

-Robin

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:36:45PM +0900, ignat 99 wrote:
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> http://www.lojban.org/cgi-bin/dict.pl
> vimcu
> frinu
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> coi ignat
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> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:23:30 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
> <lojban-out@lojban.org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:58:02PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > >
> > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
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> > > > There are non-agentive (i.e. mathematical) gismu for plus
> > > > (sumji) and multiply (pilji), but not for minus or divide, that
> > > > I can find.
> > >
> > > {dilcu} for divsion.
> > 
> > Only one kind, actually; in the vast majority of mathematical cases,
> > no remainder is wanted.  So we're kind of stuck there.
> > 
> > -Robin
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