BPFK Section: Inexact Numbers
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:57:58AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >
> > 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.
There aren't that many scientific papers published in Lojban yet,
and I doubt anything else requires the level of precision that
inner number ji'i provides. Even for those cases ji'i is much
worse than the more usual convention of +/- uncertainty/error.
Anyway, my proposal is meant for use with quantifiers, and
the digit precision convention is more suited for measurements,
so there is little chance of conflict there.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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