From cowan@ccil.org Tue May 29 18:04:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 01:04:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 23461 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 01:04:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 01:04:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 01:04:48 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 154uPK-0003m0-00; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:04:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] No number base?!? In-Reply-To: <20010529155125.J8014@digitalkingdom.org> from Robin Lee Powell at "May 29, 2001 03:51:25 pm" To: Robin Lee Powell Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > Why is there no sumti for number base in namcu? > > In fact, I can find no way to ask the question: > > "Why do you prefer base-16?" You need a selbri for "base", something like digit-string x1 represents number x2 in base x3. The mechanism for expressing numbers in random bases won't help. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter