From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Mar 22 10:59:15 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29748 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2000 18:50:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Mar 2000 18:50:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.182) by mta1.onelist.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2000 18:50:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 8913 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2000 18:50:17 -0000 Message-ID: <20000322185017.8912.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 12.128.10.26 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:50:17 PST X-Originating-IP: [12.128.10.26] To: lojban@onelist.com Subject: Re: [lojban] use and abuse of sets Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:50:17 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-eGroups-From: "Jorge Llambias" From: "Jorge Llambias" la kir cusku di'e >{lu'i do le'e mlatu ce gerku cu simsa le ka prami simxu} I am not sure what {mlatu ce gerku} means. Is it the union of the set of cats and the set of dogs? Or is it the (presumably empty) intersection? I suppose it has to be the union. So we would have: lo [pa] mlatu ce gerku du lo'i mlatu ja gerku "The set union of the set of cats and the set of dogs is the set of things that are either cats or dogs (or both)." >I do always prefer strong-typed programming languages, so it is very >natural for me that set is similar to set in quality of being {simxu}. I would have expressed it as: do lo'e mlatu ku joi lo'e gerku cu simsa le ka prami simxu co'o mi'e xorxes ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com