Subject: Re: bases [was: Re: [lojban] Re:HEX advert... (Don't know what it was)

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:43:17 -0500 (EST)

And Rosta scripsit:

> And, similarly, just because Lojban has noncompositional words for
> zero through to 15 does not mean Lojban by default uses base 16.

Note that dau does not represent the *number* 10, but the *digit*
10; a fine distinction, but important.

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