From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 30 09:57:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 16:57:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 36971 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 16:55:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 16:55:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 16:55:59 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1559GF-0000Oq-00 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:55:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:55:55 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Number base Message-ID: <20010530095555.M12764@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 Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:10:29AM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I don't understand what the problems are here, aside from the initial one. > {saclu} is a fifth-grade word (maybe earlier now) for getting .r out of n/m, > with the added charm of allowing something other than base-10 systems. Didn't notice saclu. > And "base n" is about systems of symbols, numerals, not about numbers, > which are the same however they are symbolized Yeah, that's true. Wasn't thinking about it that way. -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/