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Re: BPFK Section: Inexact Numbers

Will this work for fractional quantifiers?

piPA sumti == lo piPA si'e be sumti

When a sumti has a single referent (which may be a simple individual, a group, a set, etc.) then a fractional quantifier refers to a corresponding fraction of the referent. In particular, a fraction of a group or a set is a subgroup or subset whose cardinality is the corresponding fraction of the cardinality of the whole.

When a sumti has more than one referent (e.g. le ci plise) then a fractional quantifier refers to a fraction of one (which one is not specified) of the referents. Then {pimu le ci plise} is "half of one of the three apples. Then more generally we can define:

piPA sumti == lo piPA si'e be pa me sumti

which will also cover the case of a single referent.

We may then generalize to things like {repimu le ci plise} for "two and a half of the three apples".

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