Number subgrammar
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:41:04PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:03:07PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > CLL says that the base of each digit can be "vague", so times
> > > where the digits after the decimal point are decimal seconds, and
> > > even dates might still qualify, stretching the sense of base a
> > > bit. But we couldn't use pi'e fore tuples of signed numbers,
> > > fractions or complex numbers.
> >
> > Which was why I said that you only need to use jo'i if you actually
> > need pi internal to the number.
>
> So you would not want to allow, for example {li paso pi'e mi'u pamu}
> for "a quarter to seven"?
Did you mean ni'u there?
I have no problems with that; numbers in any base boil down to <number>
mod <base>, and that's what negative numbers do in a module context.
-Robin