Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:00:56 -0400

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I think {ju'u} is in the wrong selma'o. All other binary mex operands take 
> two numbers and return a number. {ju'u} takes a naclerpoi and a number and 
> returns a number.
> 
> ze bi'esu'i bi pi'i so = (7+8)*9
> ze bi'esu'i bi ju'u so = ?
> is it 14 (which is written 15 in base 9) or what?

It's nonsense. The reason ju'u is an operator rather than a
PA is to allow talking about variable bases:
(10 base b) - 1 = 10 base (b - 1), e.g. But the left operand can't
be anything but a digit string: (a+b) base c is just nonsense.

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