GENERAL: power of ten gismu

[mklcp]

Here the complete list of power of ten gismu, with the associated power.

• gotci -24
• zepti -21
• xatsi -18
• femti -15
• picti -12
• nanvi -9
• mikri -6
• milti -3
• centi -2
• decti -1
• nulpa 0
• dekto 1
• xecto 2
• kilto 3
• megdo 6
• gigso 9
• terto 12
• petso 15
• xesro 18
• zetro 21
• gotro 24

The current pattern for all of them is
x1 is 10^n of x2 in dimension / aspect x3 (default is units).

Why are theses gismu existing?

• They don't follow the SI prefixes, since theses prefixes are not valid lojban gismu.
• This solution is only viable if people don't need to have a power of ten out of [-24, 24]

And they're solutions to get rid of them:

• use mei. Powers of ten are oftenly used for describing a quantity.. maybe panote'acimoi can be sufficient for kilto
• about mei, and moi, why not imagine a cmavo that will convert a number to the associated power of ten? Even a slot for specifying the power, if byte'any is too long..
• use by tenfa ny, e.g. pa no tenfa ci, since numbers have rafsi
• invent a general gismu which will have x1 is 10 pow x2 of x3 in dimension / aspect x4 (default is units).

[este-rs]

I think that we can make those gismu obsolete just by assigning a rafsi for «gei». For example, «kilto» would be replaced by «ci gei» and, as a prefix in lujvo, by «cibgem-» (assuming -gem- to be the rafsi for «gei»). The 'general gismu' for powers seems to be a good idea as well.

[phma]

I say keep them. Their purpose is to use their rafsi as prefixes.