What you are seeing here is an artifact of English. "nth" here is used not in the ordinal sense (first, second, third, etc.), but in the sense of a fraction (think of three fifTHS, eleven twelfTHs, etc.)
--gejyspa
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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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