From phma@oltronics.net Fri Sep 28 05:08:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 28 Sep 2001 12:08:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 2851 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2001 12:08:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 28 Sep 2001 12:08:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.235) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 12:08:47 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 05FD33C647; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:59 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0109261630250A.01489@neofelis> <3BB24208.3020001@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <3BB24208.3020001@reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0109280756580I.01489@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat 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