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?
mu'o
mi'e .asiz.