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negative integers

• From: m109 <[email protected]>
• Subject: negative integers
• Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:40:36 +0000
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>  P.S. If we go a step further: How does Klingon express negative integers,
>e.g. "The apparatus's temperature gauge reads -3." or "It is in position -4."?

You could try something like wejpa' pagh (three before zero  -3) or
loSpa' pagh (four before zero  -4) maybe shortened to wejpa'

qelayn
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m109

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