[lojban-beginners] Re: Nth root of unity

[Liam Dalton <iamdalto@yahoo.com>]

Sorry for my absence,

 

a "two-kind-of dimension-kind-of number" as a definition for "complex number"?

Perhaps it ought to capture some of it's peculiar multiplicative properties, but then again, maybe not. lujna'u certainly is Not Apt, though, and is malglico.

 

I believe that the lojban number system in lojban has a cmavo for imaginary number: perhaps by implementing it (ka'o) into the lujvo, it would be less ambiguous, because relcimdyna'u also could imply a square measure (i.e., square meter, square light-year, ect.)

 

Maybe ka'orelcimdyna'u, or is that too unweildly? I mean, I can see a math professor saying, "...poi ka'orelcim...ka'orel...oiro'a"

 

Perhaps I am forgetting a precept against jamming cmavo into lujvo. Am I?

a@phma.optus.nu> 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".
>
> Pierre

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