Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:58 -0400

On Wednesday 26 September 2001 17:00, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

Which is why ju'u should be in its own selma'o.

phma