From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jul 08 20:27:24 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19368 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2000 03:27:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 Jul 2000 03:27:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2000 03:27:22 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA12491 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:27:19 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.8, neofelis, , 207.15.133.8 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 23:27:19(EDT) on July 08, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:14:30 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000708145949.1683.qmail@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20000708145949.1683.qmail@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070823271507.08867@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >These words can never come into conflict with their >ordinary meanings anyway. The only one that could be >probelmatic is {girzu}, because other mathematical >concepts might also want it. You'd be surprised by the way technical terms can conflict. Leonard Adleman has demonstrated finding the solution to a graph-theory problem by putting DNA fragments in solution and letting them combine. Even within one field of study, terms can conflict; there are two mathematical meanings of "graph", for instance. I propose sujgirzu for group and piljygirzu for ring. I was going to say fedgirzu for division ring, but lenu fendi does not appear to be a mathematical operation. phma