tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 04 10:10:18 1998
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Re: Yet more questions
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Yet more questions
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:10:16 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:09:51 -0800 (PST) Patrick Masterson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> For a technologically advanced race such as the Klingons, there doesn't
> seem to be a whole lot of terms for mathematic things, like adding or
> subtracting, etc.
As others have said, we simply don't have it, and we generally
seem to get along well without it. When we need something, we
get inventive. I'd like to think my own techniques would
generally communicate the ideas, but they do not have Okrand's
sanction.
> How would I do such things like:
> add
cha'vaD wej yIchel.
3+2
> subtract
wejvo' cha' yInge'
3-2
> multiply
wejlogh cha' yIchel
3x2
> divide
wej ghom nIb chenmoHlu'meH jav yIwav.
6/3
> make fractions (like 1/5)
vagh 'ay' nIb chenmoHlu'meH wa' yIwav. wa' 'ay'vam yIqel.
> make decimal numbers (like 1.45)
wa' vI' loS vagh
charghwI' 'utlh