[lojban] Re: Metric units

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:15:47PM -0500, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:06:50AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:44:13AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > Usage of metric symbols in English is to put the numeral
> > > before the symbol with a space between them. What should be
> > > the usage of symbols in Lojban (of course using symbols breaks
> > > AVI, but if a writeup uses {ki'otrefi'usnidu} a lot, you may
> > > want to use symbols)? Do you write "lo ml 750 botpi" or "lo ml
> > > be li 750 botpi"?
> > 
> > Neither.  {lo botpi po my ly 750} or {lo botpi po my ly po la'u
> > li 750}.
> 
> {my ly 750}? Don't we want to disentangle letterals and digits in
> the grammar to correct the "abu boi za'ure'u" problem?

What's this we shit, white man?

As one of the people who's actually done some math in Lojban, I've
never really supported this.  OTOH, I haven't reviewed the math I've
done with an eye to that issue.  But it's sure suck for
programming, IMO.

-Robin

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