From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu Sep 27 16:10:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 27 Sep 2001 23:10:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 82868 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 23:10:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 27 Sep 2001 23:10:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.122) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 23:10:28 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f8RNAPo13879 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:09:27 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15mkHy-0000Nj-00 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:09:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:09:54 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder Message-ID: <20010927190954.B1323@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <05ed01c1479d$64ebd820$d8b5003e@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:02:34PM -0400, Craig wrote: > No, you could use radix-1. Radix-1+1 = radix, and is always pano. Also, once > you get to trying to say base 17 lojban has problems. Once you get to base 17, you have to use a different base to talk about the digits _anyway_, so express the radix in that base. The only problem I see with bases 11-16 in Lojban is that there's no way (yet) to abbreviate dau-vai, as the digits 0-9 abbreviate no-so. Though for base 12 (if I remember the digits right) * could be 'dau' and # could be 'fei'. This also provides names for these characters (daubu, feibu). But are there 4 arbitrary characters left for the other digits? (Remember, A-F are taken.) -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri de'i li 11*9 ju'u feisu'ipa