[lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> At 09:53 AM 3/25/04 -0800, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> >Letters as digits don't make much sense anyway.
> >They are certainly not worth the trouble in boi's that they
> >cost us.
> 
> Tell it to the people who came up with the idea of using letters for hex 
> digits.  Lojban has cmavo for the 6 hex digits, but for higher bases, it 
> seems that history has indicated the use of lerfu as the convention.

But Lojban can't handle higher bases that way! Every number 
must start with a member of PA, so letters can only be used 
for other-than-the-first digit. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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