From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 26 14:22:54 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 May 2004 14:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BT5rK-0002AU-Ec for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:22:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:22:46 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: regular polyhedrons Message-ID: <20040526212246.GM30151@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040522080926.GX3932@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7975 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:15:31PM -0000, pedagoguery wrote: > --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004, xahlee.org wrote: > >> a friend wanted to know how to say "great dodecahedron" in lojban. > >> > >> So, how does one say the five regular solids? > >> > >> tetrahedron > >> cube/hexahedron > >> octahedron > >> dodecahedron > >> icosahedron > > > > The standard trick, IIRC, is to do things like vonkubli, which would > > have the place structure: > > > > x1 is a four-sided polygon of dimensions x2 (def. 3) > > > > However, for what you want vonynickubli is better: > > > > x1 is a four-sided polygon of dimensions x2 (def. 3) with regularity > > property x3 (def. all sides same length, all angles equal) > > > > That's just off the top of my head, though. > > Thanks. I'm Xah's friend :-) > > The Lojban dictionary I have lists "kubli" as being a regular > polyhedron --- is this correct? If it is, I'm not sure what the "nic" > signfies in "vonynickubli". Good point; vonkubli is probably fine. > Does "kubli" imply convexity, or some other property beyond > regularity? All I've got is the definition. > If not, there are 4 candidates for the 12-sided regular polyhedron. > "Regular polyhedron" in modern use doesn't typically imply convexity. > (There are 9 regular polyhedra, 5 of which are convex.) Huh. Didn't know that. Make it vonpulkubli then. > Comments? Why is "vonkubli" preferable to "kubli fi vo"? Because you asked for a single word. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi