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Re: [lojban-beginners] how to translate "velocity"?



This assumes you believe that you can actually take ratios like that. Myself I don't; I think units are fundamentally selbri rather than sumti in Lojban, and that the natlang solution of thinking of quantities and products/ratios thereof is actually quite strange, despite being mathematically consistent. Under this standpoint only pi'ai/te'ai or a similar system makes sense.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com> wrote:
la gleki cu cusku di'e

what is the word for "velocity" after all?
dont tell me it's {nilsutra}
velocity=length/time

Another way to express such units is:

"length / time" = {li ni'e ni clani fe'i ni'e ni temci}

With lujvo:

{li ni'e nilcla fe'i ni'e niltei}

This is not that much longer than the English "length divided by time". Now a lujvo can be made that uses the above formula as (part of) its definition. Something like the following (which is to be considered a sketch open to review):

{zo nilclanilteidilcu zo'u: x1 me li ni'e ni clani fa lo jai ve'a muvdu be fai x2 te'u fe'i ni'e ni ditcu fa lo nu x2 muvdu}

"length-time-quotient: x1 is the length of the interval of x2's moving divided by the duration for which x2 moves"

Feel free to make adjustments to or dismiss alltogether my humble use of mekso. :)

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i







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