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Number subgrammar

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John Cowan:
> Lojbanic times aren't tuples, they are numbers written in base 60
> representing either minutes (when there are two bigits) or seconds
> (when there are three).

The hour bigit is base 24, of course. And in either case, after the
matrix point {pi} we switch to base ten, with no pi'e separator for
the decimal digits.

> Dates are likewise numbers, but written to a
> so-called "compound base"; that is, one that varies from bigit to bigit.

The base for the day bigit is a function of the month bigit, and
I don't know what the base for the year bigit is.

> > (And why in the world does jbofi'e require {cu} there?)
>
> Ya got me. The official parser does not.

Does the official parser handle {li ca gi pa gi re}?

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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