hyperbola

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In a message dated 11/28/2000 06:45:09 Eastern Standard Time, 
lojban@egroups.com writes:

> kind of looks like someone was trying to make a word
> for "hyperbola" from what they thought was a word for
> "parabola". i would rather use TE JUNTA plus KRUVI which
> makes the gravity connection explicit. but TERJUNTYKRUBACRU
> is sure a mouthful. what goes in a hyperbola besides comets,
> anyway? better to borrow a word for that, & make its hyperboloid
> orbit one of the places...
> 
that's an interesting way of looking at it. i would have thought only of the 
mathematical aspect, with the asymptotes and symmetry, completely missing the 
orbital implications.
steven lytle