WikiDiscuss

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 12:32, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> I changed my grammar accordingly. Now pi'e can mix freely with the
> digits and with ki'o. I think {ki'o} should bind closer than {pi'e},
> so there would be no grouping comma for high base macro-digits. Or
> maybe it should be the other way around? What are more frequent,
> less-than-four-digit numbers in bases higher than 1000, or
> more-than-three-digit numbers in bases higher than 16? Probably both
> are so infrequent that it is not worth having a rule for this. Let's
> just say that combining ki'o and pi'e is bad.

Should we have a convention that ki'o in certain bases groups by fours? Hex
numbers are more commonly grouped in four nybbles than three.

Some peoples (such as Japanese and Ancient Greek) group digits in fours in
decimal (Ancient Greeks didn't have Arabic numerals, but they spoke in
myriads). And the Indians write 2,14,74,83,647 and have names for odd powers
of 10. But Lojban, like English, counts by thousands in base 10.

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