Fw: [lojban] cipja'o

["G. Dyke" <gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Dyke" <gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch>
To: "Pierre Abbat" <phma@webjockey.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] cipja'o


> so transcendental numbers are those which cannot solve poynomial
equations?
>
> what does that make them??
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre Abbat" <phma@webjockey.net>
> To: <lojban@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [lojban] cipja'o
>
>
> > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 15:19, Jay Kominek wrote:
> > > A transcendental number is one which cannot be expressed as a
polynomial
> > > with integer coefficients. All transcendental numbes are irrational.
> >
> > As *a root of* a polynomial.
> >
> > > > We don't, of course, have a word for algebra either (nor hardly any
> > > > other branch of mathematics -- or anything else).
> > >
> > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/?Math%20Terminology
> > >
> > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/?Terminology
> >
> > There are at least two different meanings of "algebra" within
mathematics:
> >
> > 1. The method of manipulating equations so as to solve them.
> >
> > 2. A mathematical structure based on a field and satisfying certain
> axioms.
> >
> > They should be given different brivla in Lojban.
> >
> > phma
> >
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