Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder

From: "michael helsem" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:33:39

>From: [email-masked]
li'o
>There is one other mechanism I would like to see considered:
>a way to assign a sticky base, so that one could define a
>base at the beginning of a document or section, and have
>the later numbers interpreted as the base in question.

wouldn't something like NO'O JU'U (say) VEI VAISU'IPA KI work? it sticks
place & time in storytelling, why not the number base?

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