[lojban] Re: [Archivist] Mathematical gismu.

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

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:31:10AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:23:30 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:58:02PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> 
> {selpilji} then, like {selsumji} for difference.

Those both make my head hurt.  :-/

I guess they're the best we've got, though.

-Robin

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