Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:09:54 -0400

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