Subject: Re: [lojban] cipja'o

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:59:50 -0400

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