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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] geometry terminology in Klingon

Rohan Fenwick ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>jIjatlhpu':<br>&gt; Also, for those not aware, a pyramid having a<br><div>&gt; three-sided base (and consequently having all four sides forming<br>&gt; triangles) has the special name of "tetrahedron".<br><br>mujang Quvar, jatlh: <br>&gt; To be nitpicking, this is only the case when ALL of the sides are equal, <br>&gt; that is, all surfaces of it are a {ra'Duch tIQ}.<br>&gt; If the base of the pyramid is a {vayya'}, it's a {vayya' 'Impey}, but <br>&gt; not a tetrahedron.<br><br>With respect, that's not true. ANY polyhedron with four triangular faces, regardless of the dimension of said faces, is a tetrahedron. You're thinking of the *regular* tetrahedron (one of the five Platonic solids and so the best-known tetrahedron), but there is such a thing as an irregular tetrahedron too:<br><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;q=irregular+tetrahedron"; target="_blank">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;q=irregular+tetrahedron</a><br><br>Whether a Klingon would refer to an irregular tetrahedron like this one as a {qu'vu'} is another question, of course:<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kronick/4079413081/"; target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/kronick/4079413081/</a><br><br>but where not every tetrahedron may be a {qu'vu'}, every {qu'vu'} would be a tetrahedron.<br><br>QeS<br></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
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