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Number subgrammar

posts: 1912

Robin:
> > 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?

Yes, sorry.

> 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.

But {ni'u} normally applies to the whole string of digits, just like
{pi}. If you allow {ni'u} for a single digit, why not {pi} as well?

What would you do with {ni'u} on the first digit, does it reverse
the whole number, or just that digit?

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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