tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 21 06:17:37 1996
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Re: Fractions
According to Alan Anderson:
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> {vatlhvI'} does a good job until you need more precision than the two
> decimal places it gives us. But why would you need to use fractions?
> We don't even know how to talk about arithmetic well in Klingon. The
> words {chel} and {nge'} work for the addition and subtraction operators,
> and {wav} might be okay for division, but there's no obvious word for
> multiplication, not to mention exponentiation.
If my memory serves, my earlier solution to this was to say for
4 X 3 something like "Four adds itself thrice". wejlogh
chel'egh loS (?). I guess four times three squared could be a
further extension of addition. That's how computers do it.
> If you want to collect strange proposals for unit fractions, here's one:
> use {yoy}. :-) 1/3 would be {wej yoy}.
wej.... puH.
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
charghwI'
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