From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 16 15:47:35 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:47:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JQWkT-00067a-0j for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:47:29 -0800 Received: from web62507.mail.re1.yahoo.com ([69.147.75.99]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JQWjy-00066f-J5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:47:07 -0800 Received: (qmail 62779 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Feb 2008 23:46:20 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=YfplePOhydAHnPSROlFRvUBWocdPNaym7hlwSgnarhyp4+wGKYjSOAOPqt0wiLOYGztKYBh7pS3jPzSO+5DCw5sl2BZVlTBuQb9Fdx6dKY6ei2x03c5Xt2QyW8T/57zuMIUK/o0MzAh7A6TvMS78nR1+4SrblfYmXbf0eICF3jM=; X-YMail-OSG: hoIiWI4VM1mm53qUtx4.Vf6_aJjmf7LxowsqN99SpB05D9wwaH7cSeUDC8t9ZuNMUR5UdBhgx78rUYNGu0hzu_S4FlAvGRoX_9pNWU3mWbGNEOjIoo4xBghCqboXQg-- Received: from [63.24.80.127] by web62507.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:46:20 PST Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:46:20 -0800 (PST) From: Liam Dalton Subject: [lojban-beginners] naming the phrase "root of unity" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1522026523-1203205580=:62104" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <775491.62104.qm@web62507.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 353 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: iamdalto@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --0-1522026523-1203205580=:62104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In mathematical terminology, there is a phrase "root of unity." My ability to explain it sucks, so I'm going to copy the definition from the controversial Wikipedia, and hope not to be shot down: In mathematics, the nth roots of unity, or de Moivre numbers, are all the complex numbers that yield 1 when raised to a given power n. They are located on the unit circle of the complex plane, and in that plane they form the vertices of an n-sided regular polygon with one vertex on 1. I would like to find a good lujvo that expresses this without being malglico; clearly, merely tossing together the gismu for "unity-root" will obtain humorous yet non-lojbanic results. Thanks! Liam --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. --0-1522026523-1203205580=:62104 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In mathematical terminology, there is a phrase "root of unity." My ability to explain it sucks, so I'm going to copy the definition from the controversial Wikipedia, and hope not to be shot down:
 
In mathematics, the nth roots of unity, or de Moivre numbers, are all the complex numbers that yield 1 when raised to a given power n. They are located on the unit circle of the complex plane, and in that plane they form the vertices of an n-sided regular polygon with one vertex on 1.
 
I would like to find a good lujvo that expresses this without being malglico; clearly, merely tossing together the gismu for "unity-root" will obtain humorous yet non-lojbanic results.
 
Thanks!
Liam

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