From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Jun 07 08:33:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 7 Jun 2002 15:33:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 91211 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2002 15:33:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2002 15:33:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 15:33:05 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA06710; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:32:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200206071532.LAA06710@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:32:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] How many places for lujvo? To: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de (Newton, Philip) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:32:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com ('John Cowan'), phma@webjockey.net, lojban@yahoogroups.com, Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de (Newton Philip) In-Reply-To: from "Newton, Philip" at Jun 07, 2002 04:44:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan 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. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_