From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 22 06:57:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 13:57:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 54113 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 13:57:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 13:57:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 13:57:50 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (58.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.58]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5MDvmP39913 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:57:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010622094323.00d50a70@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:02:25 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal In-Reply-To: <01062120232807.02301@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 08:20 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >Does {cnano} mean "norm" or "average"? Yes. (i.e both) >How would you express "The average >height of the river is normally two meters, but now it's six, and they don't >follow a normal distribution"? I have no idea how to unambiguously say "normal distribution", which is mathematical jargon, but here is my first stab. leni le rirxe cu condi cu selcnano lo mitre be li re ne caku'i li xa .i ra na ckaji le ka cnano tercunso lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org