Subject: Re: [lojban] Digest Number 637

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:23:33 EST

In a message dated 11/11/2000 05:03:20 Eastern Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:08:27 GMT
> From: "michael helsem" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: 0.6180339...
> 
> >From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
> li'o
> >Is this number called {fi'ufi'u}?
> >
> 
> li fi'ufi'u .ie
> 
it seems to me that [li fi'ufi'u] could mean either 1/fi'u or fi'u/1, where 
fi'u is (sqrt(5)-1)/2, the golden ratio. the Book is unclear about fi'u 
(p.433), but the glosser i use ([email-masked]?) gives:

fi'u -fraction slash digit/number: fraction slash; default "/n" = 1/n, "n/" = 
n/1, or "/" alone = golden ratio

if it can be either one, then how does one distinguish between the two 
meanings? if it can be only one, then which one is preferred?
steven lytle