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Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder



On Wednesday 26 September 2001 17:00, John Cowan wrote:
> It's nonsense.  The reason ju'u is an operator rather than a
> PA is to allow talking about variable bases:
> (10 base b) - 1 = 10 base (b - 1), e.g.  But the left operand can't
> be anything but a digit string:  (a+b) base c is just nonsense.

Which is why ju'u should be in its own selma'o.

phma