From jjllambias@hotmail.com Fri Jul 07 17:38:45 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20524 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.194) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 54179 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jul 2000 00:38:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000708003845.54178.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.154.168 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:38:45 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.154.168] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] repeating decimals Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:38:45 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" > > 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". You could use {li mura'epi}. I don't think {ra'e} has any meaning assigned when used before {pi}. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com