[lojban] Re: Lojban customary measuring units

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 11/9/06, Seth Gordon <sethg@ropine.com> wrote:
> On a related note, I like to think that in Lojbanistan there are 81
> fepni in a rupnu, with 1-, 3-, 9-, and 27-fepni coins, because that is
> the optimal system for making change (cf.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary#Applications).
>
> :-)

But before that efficient system was introduced, the monetary subunit
was the cenru'u, as in the old saying:

   lo dinynei cu xenru .u'u
   lo nu xaksu lo cenru'u

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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