From rob@twcny.rr.com Mon Oct 01 22:02:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 05:02:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 14222 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 05:02:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 05:02:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.122) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 05:02:09 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f9251Bo18242 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:01:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:01:10 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15oHgT-0000cU-00 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 01:01:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:01:33 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: possible A-F... Message-ID: <20011002010133.B1021@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <73.13da3798.28ea7f6b@aol.com> <9pbdoj+71ek@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9pbdoj+71ek@eGroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:53:55AM -0000, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: > --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > > Well, it is lost now. What I have with reasonable confidence is > that dek is > > 1AC. a reversed 7 (1BD). El is probably A2C, an E (1A2C3)with its > top and > > bottom lopped, though it might be A2CD, and lc h. If not that > latter, then > > Zen is probably AB2Cm a backward 4 (AB2D). Tris then appears to be > 1AB2C, a > > cap P. But that leaves cat as a discontinuous 1C3 and kink as a > stubby 2C, > > so I assume the visual divides go wrong somewhere. Maybe tris is > F, 1A2C, > > and cat is C, 1AC3. That still leaves a stubby kink. I can see the digits just fine: _ _ _ | |_ _| |_ | |_ | | | | _| | (backwards 7, t-shape pointing right, zigzag, zigzag the other way, backwards C, 5 without the base) > um...what the hell are you trying to say? what's a dek? what's an > El? is this anti-hex poetry or something? the original message is > at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/message/11218. it should be > pretty obvious what seven sigment display corresponds to the *'s if > you used fixed width. You'd think such an avid supporter of hex wouldn't be so hostile toward an attempt to name the extra digits in English. I'm not sure about the system he's using to describe the segments, but I picked up that he's calling the digits dek, el, zen, tris, cat, kink. Incidentally, I still haven't heard you quite explain why you think hex should be used everywhere. What advantages does it have? -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri