From araizen@newmail.net Tue Oct 02 17:58:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 3 Oct 2001 00:58:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 50070 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2001 00:58:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Oct 2001 00:58:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgw2.netvision.net.il) (194.90.1.9) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Oct 2001 00:58:20 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (ras2-p49.rvt.netvision.net.il [62.0.180.178]) by mailgw2.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA05097 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:58:17 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <019f01c14ba6$a6f4cd00$c3b4003e@oemcomputer> To: References: <9pa8cd+ekqt@eGroups.com> Subject: Re: bases [was: Re: [lojban] Re:HEX advert... (Don't know what it was) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:58:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Adam Raizen" la mark. cusku di'e > That there > shouldn't be ways to talk about other bases (like ju'u) or even > "fix" a base as temporary default (in the Dozenal Society's journal, > for example (would likely be implicit there), or in a computer > science textbook) is not at issue: those things should definitely be > possible. The standard way of fixing a base (or overring any mex convention) is "ti'o". So fixing binary could perhaps be "ti'o li pa su'i pa te nu'aju'u", for example. (nu'aju'u: number x1 is the result of evaluating mex x2 according to base x3) mu'o mi'e .adam.