[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 25 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. moorkids@juno.com .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
> Sorry for not responding sooner, I learned a trick awhile ago that relates to
> figuring out how many possible gismu their can be (or at least getting a very
> close estimate).
> [snipped]
.skamyxatra

Your "trick" appears to consist of blatantly ignoring the rules of Lojban
morphology, imposing an arbitrary new rule about "no repeating letters,"
considering only half of your new pseudo-{gismu} space, and claiming that it
all evens outs magically.

If you want the real number of possible {gismu}, ignoring conflicts, consider
that there are 17 consonants, five vowels, 48 initial consonant pairs, and 131
valid consonant pairs.  A {gismu} is either "initial pair, vowel, consonant,
vowel" or "consonant, vowel, consonant pair, vowel"; this comes out to 48 * 5 *
17 * 5 + 17 * 5 * 131 * 5 = 76075 possible {gismu} (again, ingoring conflicts).

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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