Re: [lojban] du, speed, units

[Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>]

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 15:24, Rob Speer wrote:
> These seemingly unrelated comments gave me an idea. One of the "holes" in
> Lojban's vocabulary thus far seems to be words for mixed units - we can
> describe something's length in meters or its duration in seconds, but we
> can't describe speed in meters per second.
>
> When we say "meters per second", we mean that for the speed in question a
> certain number of meters corresponds to a certain number of seconds. So how
> about "meters per second" -> {mitre du snidu} -> {tredubysnidu}? (Or
> {tredunsnidu} - is there a difference?)
>
> And then there's the question of multiplying units... I don't think simply
> running the rafsi for units together would work very well - perhaps they
> could be linked with {jol}. (Or {pi'i}, though that seems ugly to me.) And
> would {reltre} be a square meter?

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