Re: [lojban] definition of si'e

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 15 June 2012 13:53:23 guskant wrote:
> The definition of si'e is inconsistent with its usage. According to
> the Complete Lojban Language Chapter 18 (and also to jbovlaste), si'e
> is defined as:
>    x1 is an (n)th portion of mass x2.
> The example shows however that si'e itself does not imply fi'u (an (n)th):
>    11.8)    levi sanmi cu fi'ucisi'e lei mi djedi cidja
>        This-here meal is-a-slash-three-portion-of my day-food.
>        This meal is one-third of my daily food.
> Guessing from the example, the definition of si'e must be:
>    x1 is n times portion of mass x2.
> n is a positive real number or 0, or may be simply a real number. I
> can't imagine the case that n is a complex number, but it might be
> mathematically possible.

Sounds good to me. You may want to add a note that, normally, n is 0 
ga'obi'iga'o 1.

Pierre

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