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Re: [lojban-beginners] MEX remainder



On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> How does one express a division remainder in MEX? (CLL seems to have
> no example of it.)
>
> 30 ÷ 7 = 4 ... 2
> li cino fe'i ze du li vo ___

Remainder is not really an operator. 22 ÷ 5 is also "4 with remainder
2", but 30 ÷ 7 and 22 ÷ 5 are not equal, so you can't really use "du"
there.

You could use "na'u dilcu":

li na'u dilcu cino boi ze boi re du li vo
li na'u dilcu rere boi mu boi re du li vo

Equivalent to:

li vo dilcu li cino li ze li re
li vo dilcu li rere li mu li re

mu'o mi'e xorxes