Re: [lojban] Digest Number 637

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In a message dated 11/11/2000 05:03:20 Eastern Standard Time, 
lojban@egroups.com writes:

>   Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:08:27 GMT
>     From: "michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: 0.6180339...
>  
>  >From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>
>       li'o
>  >Is this number called {fi'ufi'u}?
>  >
>  
>  li fi'ufi'u .ie
>  
it seems to me that [li fi'ufi'u] could mean either 1/fi'u or fi'u/1, where 
fi'u is (sqrt(5)-1)/2, the golden ratio.  the Book is unclear about fi'u 
(p.433), but the glosser i use (hezekiah@utexas.edu?) gives:

fi'u -fraction slash digit/number: fraction slash; default "/n" = 1/n, "n/" = 
n/1, or "/" alone = golden ratio

if it can be either one, then how does one distinguish between the two 
meanings?  if it can be only one, then which one is preferred?
steven lytle