[lojban] Re: round numbers

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> 2. Numbers whose prime factors are all small.
> How do you say this in Lojban?

The problem with this seems to be that the Lojban gismu {pilji} expresses 
a product of but two factors. If we had a brivla that meant "x1 is a 
product of factors x2", we could simply say "broda be lo cmalu ku po'o". 
It is not entirely clear to me how to best construct such a brivla.

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