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la djan cusku di'e
I don't agree. 22.0 is an integer and, of course, a real number. The fact that (most) computer languages want to give 22 one representation and 22.0 a different one is neither here nor there.
I wasn't thinking of computer langauges, it didn't even
occur to me. If you say {ji'i 22.0}, I will think "some
real number around 22.0", if you say "ji'i 22", I will
think "some integer around 22", unless context says that
reals are allowed. But {ji'i 22.0} definitely says that
reals are in play, without any additional context needed.
> >I propose tu'opino instead.
>
> I wouldn't take {tu'o} as a digit either,
I don't see why not.
For the moment, it's just a general feeling of rejection.
Another possibility to signal integers is prefixing {ro},
which strictly only makes sense with integers.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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