Re: [lojban] Using Lojban in 'very' defined contexts (eg. maths)

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

I heard something similar about calculation abilities of young
Japanese children : as they use the pattern 4 100 3 10 2 to say "432",
they are good in maths and more able than english children who must
think and compute "thirty" instead of "three tens".

Also, one say I passed IQ tests or something like that and there was a
test where numbers of three and four digits appeared on a screen like
flash and one had to tell if two consecutive numbers were the same or
different.

And I had good results because I coded internally (in my mind) "1234"
as "one-two-three-four", and not as "one thousand two hundreds
thirty-four".

So, for this kind of task, i.e. identifying a sequence, a strictly
digital approach is good.  But to compute quantities and have a good
insight of their meaning, "one thousand two hundreds and so on" is the
right approach...

[Besides, it was also proved that people whose language has
monosyllabic words for the digits were better at this kind of test,
for prosodic and mnemonic obvious reasons]

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