From jjllambias@hotmail.com Tue May 29 17:58:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 00:58:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 61358 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 00:58:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 May 2001 00:58:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.19) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 00:58:19 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:58:17 -0700 Received: from 200.69.11.80 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2001 00:58:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.69.11.80] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] No number base?!? Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:58:17 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 May 2001 00:58:17.0767 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CFF6370:01C0E8A3] From: "Jorge Llambias" la camgusmis cusku di'e > > >"Why do you prefer base-16?" > > > > i mu'a lu ma krinu le nu do zmanei le me li vai ke namcu selyle'u li'u > >That doesn't parse. That's not polite, you should say: "That doesn't parse because such or such a terminator is missing." I don't really understand why it doesn't parse. Does {me li vai} need to be closed? Oh, I see, it must be because that {ke} could be absorbed into some weird MEX stuff. Ok, but instead of using a terminator there change {ke namcu selyle'u} to {namcu bo selyle'u}. Hopefully that should do it. >Even if it did, I wouldn't have even the most basic clue as to what the >hell you were talking about. About a {selyle'u}, a system of symbols. >It sounds like you're asking 'Why do you like the letters associated >with hexadecimal numbering?' which is a completely different question. The letters/digits would be {le lerfu}. You could also use {le te saclu}, if you can figure out what that predicate means. Maybe we could redefine it as "x1 is the symbol of number x2 in base x3", or maybe it already means that. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.