Re: [lojban] "three times as big"

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Saturday, February 08, 2014 01:39:29 Felipe Gonçalves Assis wrote:
> This sentence from oz made me think:
> {lo màrce cu bràmau ro lo smàcu poi pu'o làcpu my ku'o fo lo pìlji be li
> ki'o}
> 
> It is fine as it is, but I guess the intended meaning is "the vehicle was a
> thousand times bigger than each rat", while it means something like "1001
> times bigger", since zmadu4 is the difference.
> 
> This is irrelevant for big inexact numbers, but what if I wanted to say,
> e.g., "three times bigger"? Would I have to say {bramau fo lo pilji be li
> re}? What about "three times smaller"? Should I use logarithms?
> 
> For round numbers, we have gismu like {kilto}, so we can say, e.g.
> {lo marce cu braki'o ro lo smacu}. What about other numbers? Can we devise
> a lujvo schema?

lo nilbra be lo xruki cu pilji li ci lo nilbra be lo jipci
This is three times as big, not three times bigger (which is four times as 
big).

Pierre
-- 
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