BPFK Section: Inexact Numbers
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:57:58AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> > Re: BPFK Section: Inexact Numbers It seems to me that for ji'i
> > to be useful, it needs to scope to the right; that is "pa ji'i
> > re no no" is 1000 + ji'i re 100s + ji'i no 10s + ji'i no 1s
> >
> > I haven't read your proposal well enough to tell if this is
> > already the case, but wanted to mention it.
>
> In my proposal, ji'i does scope to the right, but it cannot appear
> between the digits of a number.
I consider this a Serious Problem.
> When two quantifiers with a range operator (su'o, su'e, za'u,
> me'i, ji'i) appear one next to the other, they indicate a number
> in the common range. For example:
>
> za'u ci me'i so
> more than three less than 9
>
> su'o ci su'e so
> between three and nine
>
> ji'i ci ji'i vo
> around three or four
That's neat and useful, but I consider losing usages like the one I
gave a rather drastic price to pay.
-Robin