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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mathematics terminology

Brad Wilson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_d2e3eecb-b04a-41d4-9596-bd7ea176c2b9" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&gt;&gt;&gt; </font></tt><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I used the terms {toghmeH mI'} and {juvmeH mI'}</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">These make perfect sense to me and would be understood by anyone with basic Klingon knowledge. Perhaps early Klingons only included whole (ie. counting) numbers in the set of {toghmeH mI'}, but as their knowledge grew, they added the negative versions. Personally, I don't have a problem with {toghmeH mI'} referring to any integer, positive or negative.&nbsp;As to "negative", I like {yoy}, but also consider {DoH} in that a negative number could be thought to be "backed away" from zero. Another concept might be that of "mirroring" the positive number.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">As for {juvmeH mI'}, things are rarely "measured" in integers, so using this for real numbers seems logical. Rational vs irrational numbers would be subsets of the real numbers. I like your idea of using "precision of measurement" to differentiate these. I could see {mI' pup} used for rational numbers, ie. those that can be measured with precision.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">If Klingon scientists recognize "imaginary" numbers as we do, ie. as multiples of the square root of -1, then perhaps a term like {mI' DuHbe'} or </font></tt><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">{mI' qItbe'} could be applied, since these numbers would clearly seem impossible in light of precision of measurement.</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I really hope that Maltz, as a science officer, can shed some light on these technicalities. I haven't even begun to consider terms in my field - chemistry &amp; chemical engineering.</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">gheyIl</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br>
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