[lojban] Re: how to say manifold

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: 
> A fu'ivla might not be bad here, but I suspect that it wouldn't be hard
> to build a lujvo if one built upon a from-scratch description of
> topology mathematics in general.  A mathematical surface is probably
> "sefta tarmi". 

If we throw away the du'amoi places of tarmi, yes. With manifolds,
you usually don't want the edges to be included.

> Locally Euclidian is something like "xutla diklo".

Every time I look at the definition of {diklo} I get confused.
I can never quite figure out the relationship between x1, x2 and x3.
Something is a locus on something else, but which one is the locus?
"x1 is local to x2" would seem to say that x1 is a locus of x2.
But then it says "x1 is confined to locus x2 within range x3"
so now it seems x2 is a locus of x3, and x1 is something located
there? So is it a Russian doll sort of structure x3(x2(x1)) ? 

{xutla} does seem perfectly fine for the mathematical sense 
of "smooth".

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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