From cowan@ccil.org Fri Jul 07 12:42:25 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1201 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:42:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01711; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:18:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals In-Reply-To: <00070622055102.00877@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote: > For the p-adic numbers or the objects called "brenoms" in French, I propose > using "sera'e". Thus, in base 7, li no pi ra'e pa dunli li mu sera'e pi > (0.1111... = ...55555.), both being 1/6. A clever idea, but we are constrained by our grammar, which forbids "sera'e". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know