Subject: Re: [lojban] How many places for lujvo?

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:32:50 -0400 (EDT)

Newton, Philip scripsit:

> Hm... is it coincidence that the vowels in the digits 1 to 9 are .a .e .i .o
> .u .a .e .i .o? I suppose not. (That would imply that 0 should be .u,
> though...)

No coincidence at all. Doing that provided wide separation as well as
mnemonicity. Note also the pattern in the hex digits.

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