From BestATN@aol.com Sat Nov 11 20:23:41 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: BestATN@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 12 Nov 2000 04:23:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 30813 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2000 04:23:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Nov 2000 04:23:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r18.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.72) by mta2 with SMTP; 12 Nov 2000 04:23:38 -0000 Received: from BestATN@aol.com by imo-r18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id a.87.2c2b99d (4228) for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:23:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <87.2c2b99d.273f7545@aol.com> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:23:33 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Digest Number 637 To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 124 From: BestATN@aol.com In a message dated 11/11/2000 05:03:20 Eastern Standard Time, lojban@egroups.com writes: > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:08:27 GMT > From: "michael helsem" > Subject: Re: 0.6180339... > > >From: Pierre Abbat > 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 (hezekiah@utexas.edu?) 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