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Re: tuj luSpetmey

De'vID jonwI' ([email protected]) 

De'vID:
>>Then "A" is proportional (I used <rur> here, because I
>>couldn't come up with a way of expressing "varies in
>>proportional to") to "m^2" (I tried various ways of
>>using <boq>, <-'egh> and <-logh>, but just couldn't
>>extend multiplication to squaring),

Quvar:
>squaring IS multiplication:
>    {M-logh boq'egh M; chen M^2}
>    "M x M = M^2"

I had thought of this, but I wanted something that could be
generalized to other exponents.  For example, A^N might be
<N-logh *boq'egh'egh A>, since exponentiation is like repeated
multiplication, but of course I can't <-'egh> twice.  The other
thing I didn't like about this idea is that <M> is repeated.
(It also bothers me slightly that the quantity <M> in front of
<-logh> might not be an integer, but that's probably some kind
of Terran prejudice on my part.)  You're right though, it works
and would be understood by a Klingon, given what we know of
their mathematics.

Now, would <N-logh M-logh boq'egh M> be understood as
<N x M x M> or would it be understood as <M^{N+1}> (i.e.
the <N-logh> applies to the <M-logh>)?  Or would it not be
understood at all?

De'vID:
>>but none for simple things like "area".  (Is there a way to
>>express the concept of surface area?

Quvar:
>The closest I find is {yoS} "district, area"

Unfortunately, this is the wrong meaning of "area".  I wanted
to try <qoD> "inside, interior" and <Hur> "outside", but the
problem is that I couldn't disambiguate between the surface
area of a 3D object and its volume.

--
De'vID

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