From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Feb 18 22:26:12 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:26:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRLvf-0007Wv-LC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:26:12 -0800 Received: from michael.checkpoint.com ([194.29.32.68]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRLva-0007Wd-KL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:26:11 -0800 Received: from [172.31.24.152] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by michael.checkpoint.com (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id m1J6QEDN012154 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:26:14 +0200 (IST) Message-Id: <37F6EA1F-23DE-45F4-B5D8-A427F8B2C55D@gmail.com> From: Yoav Nir To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200802172028.20159.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Nth root of unity Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:25:57 +0200 References: <200802172028.20159.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 359 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: yoav.nir@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008 15:43, David Cortesi wrote: >> per jbovlaste, complex number is {lujna'u} i.e. {pluja namcu}, a >> complicated type of number -- not pleasing to me, since it is more a >> two-dimensional number than one that is {pluja}. > > Someone's suggested {relcimdyna'u}, which goes well with > {voncimdyna'u} > for "quaternion". I don't like that very much. a two-dimensional number should be a vector, not a complex number. {lujna'u} I like better, because this is a composite number, just as {lujvo} is a composite word. mi'e ioav