From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Oct 01 09:04:00 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 1 Oct 2001 16:02:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 12249 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2001 16:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 1 Oct 2001 16:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.104) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2001 16:03:59 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:03:59 -0700 Received: from 208.188.25.91 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:03:59 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.188.25.91] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: bases [was: Re: [lojban] Re:HEX advert... (Don't know what it was) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:03:59 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Oct 2001 16:03:59.0410 (UTC) FILETIME=[AE5D1120:01C14A92] From: "michael helsem" >From: mark@kli.org li'o >Now, does this really matter all that much in Lojban? After all, we >have ra'e for repeating digits, and we even have fi'u for explicit >fractions it seems to me not at all un-lobykai, that although there is a default base of ten, other bases are simple to implement & indeed already being used by some of us. base-pluralism like many another pluralism is only unthinkable to the unsophisticated mind. ------------------------------------------------------------- "The time when the Bill of Rights, or the providing of historical context or satire, is most precious and most necessary is always when it is being deprecated as too dangerous, irrelevant or inappropriate at the present time." --Alexander Cockburn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp