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Number subgrammar

Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> The hour bigit is base 24, of course.

It can be, but doesn't have to be: an elapsed time may be 222 hours 22 minutes
22 seconds.

> And in either case, after the
> matrix point {pi} we switch to base ten, with no pi'e separator for
> the decimal digits.

So we do. Convention is everything.

> 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.

Quite so.

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

Yes.

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