From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 29 20:57:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 03:57:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 23624 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 03:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 03:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 03:57:23 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 154x6o-0004P9-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 20:57:22 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:57:22 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] No number base?!? Message-ID: <20010529205722.F12764@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:47:09PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Rob Speer scripsit: > > * Is there a way to specify what base you're using outside of a mekso? ju'u > > seems to be only allowed immediately after a number. > > You can *say* what base you are using, given a selbri for "base", like > "All the digit-strings represent da in base 16". This is a *human* > language, not a programming language. Well, of course. Do you have such a selbri? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/