Subject: Re: [lojban] 'irrational' numbers

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:27:25 -0400

On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, John Cowan wrote:
li'o
>Pi has its own cmavo, pai. For the others, youc an
>say "mo'e la xxx.", where "mo'e" converts a sumti
>to a math operand.
>
>> 2. What does "LI X" mean, where X is something other than a PA?
>
>Following "li" (or its fraternal twin "mo'e") there must be a
>mathematical expression, so only mekso words are allowed there.
>However, one can convert a sumti to an operand, as above,
>or a selbri to an operator with "na'u" (x1 is the result,
>x2 etc. are the operands).

I think you mean "me'o" the second time. "Me'o" takes a mex and converts it to
a sumti without evaluating it, while "li" takes a mex and converts its value
to a sumti. So "ta me me'o denpa bu" means "that is a period", while "ta me li
denpa bu" does not have an obvious meaning; "ta me me'o bi" means "that is a
figure eight" whereas "ta me li bi" means "that is eight".

ma se diklo le za'i me'o pi me me'o denpa bu?

mu'omi'e pier.