Re: [lojban] Re: 5/6%

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 10:08:40 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>>   I'd say that was correct.  In the absence of  vei/ve'o, it should be
>> left to right grouping
>
> None of "mu fi'u xa ce'i" is an operator, so that's irrelevant. As far as the
> grammar is concerned, "mufi'uxace'i" is the same as "parecivo"
> or "paici'ino'otu'o".
>
> Pierre
> --
> li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa


  Fair point.  As CLL says, ref'iuze "is the name of the number
two-sevenths; it is not the same as ``the result of 2 divided by 7''
in Lojban, although numerically these two are equal." (it also laters
says that 1/2 is not the same as 3/6.  So as soon as you tell me what
paici'ino'otu'o means unambiguously, I"ll tell you what mufi'uxace'i
means...  It seems to me that if you wanted it to evaluate to  5/(6%),
you should use mu fi'u {no} pi no xa

            --gejyspa