[lojban-beginners] naming the phrase "root of unity"

[Liam Dalton <iamdalto@yahoo.com>]

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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