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On Monday 27 December 2004 01:54, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:38:54AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > li pira'epavorebimuze du li fi'uze.
>
> No, actually. One is a number, the other is a fraction that
> represents that number, *sort* of. "li fi'u ze" is "one over seven";
> the fraction you gave is "li pa fe'i ze". To what extent these
> things are identical is unclear. Certainly they are different
> words, at the least.

They are both numbers ({fi'u} and {ra'e} are both in PA), and they are the
same number. If I wanted to say that the *symbols* used to represent the same
number are different, I'd say {me'o pira'epavorebimuze na du me'o fi'uze}.

phma
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