From ragnarok@pobox.com Sat Sep 29 11:11:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 29 Sep 2001 18:11:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 25032 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 18:11:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 29 Sep 2001 18:11:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Sep 2001 18:11:58 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AEEE25150290; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:11:58 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <20010929130736.A1389@twcny.rr.com> X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" >.i xu ma poi na nu pilno lo skami cu prali fi lenu pilno lo namcu jicmu poi >ponse pa po'o ralnamcu se pilji >.i da zo'u ko troci lenu ciska lo saclu be le dilcu be li pa bei da kei a lenu >facki ledu'u dilcu de da li no kei va'o ledu'u da na du li re te'a no'o >.i la'edi'u na melbi >("What, besides using a computer, is the advantage of using a base which has >only one prime factor? >Try to write a decimal of the fraction 1/something, or find whether something >divides something else evenly, when that something is not a power of two. >It's not pretty.") Using 'melbi' to mean pleasant strikes my as a bit malglico. How about ".i la'edi'u na se gleki" or ".i la'edi'u na xamgu" for "it does not please" or "It is not good" - or even for the latter use ".i la'edi'u mabla" to express the feelings you seem to have about hex? --la kreig.daniyl. 'segu le bavli temci gi mi'o renvi lo purci .i ga le fonxa janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme: 0x5C3A1E74