From cowan@ccil.org Sun Nov 11 09:43:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 11 Nov 2001 17:43:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 95796 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 17:43:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Nov 2001 17:43:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 17:43:13 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 162ydZ-00080Y-00 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:43:17 -0500 Subject: Re: bases [was: Re: [lojban] Re:HEX advert... (Don't know what it was) In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Nov 10, 2001 11:46:37 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:43:17 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan 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. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan