From phma@oltronics.net Tue Aug 22 13:11:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6122 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 20:11:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 20:11:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 20:11:07 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA04591 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:09:38 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.27, neofelis, , 207.15.133.27 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 16:10:21(EDT) on August 22, 2000 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] va'u Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:11:59 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39A2B1C2.638EE0E6@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <39A2B1C2.638EE0E6@reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0008221514170B.02704@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >All those of the form "xVV" (4), "xV'V" (25), and all those with more than three >letters excluding apostrophes (uncountably many). Examples of the latter are >ai'u, fau'a, zo'o'o'o. That is only countably many. You can't get an uncountable infinity of finitely long strings of letters from a finite alphabet. phma