[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:52 AM, H. Felton<fagricipni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The one "minimum" calculation that I have been able to come up with
> is that each of the 3 consonant can block _at most_ 2 gismu each, the
> final vowel rule means that each gismu blocks another 4 gismu, so no
> gismu can block more than 10 other gismu; using this worst-worst case
> analysis each gismu can hold at most 11 slots in gismu space; 1 for
> the gismu itself, 10 for the other blocked slots.

You can improve this bound a little by noting that a CC pair can block
at most 3 other CC pairs (never 4), so no gismu form can block more
than 9 other gismu forms.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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