Re: Numbers and math

Matt McLauchlin wrote:
>> - what about raising to the nth power and n-roots?
>
>Roots I don't know about, but the positive nth power is expressed with the
>verb kaub "be big; be raised to a power"; e.g. ðo cekaubard slauper
>deziza "ten to the sixth equals a million".
        That apparently is true of Gwr: chih ma kong (lit. 1000 vast 4, ie
1000 to the fourth power)= quadrillion 10^15; so old base8 ma? ma ni 10^2
(64, new decimal 100) etc.   Kash might well have borrowed this method,
using raka 'big, vast':  nim raka sila 5^3, mepola raka keli 10^6 or million
etc.
>A negative power is expressed with the verb pik "be small; be raised to a
>negative power"; e.g.>
        Likewise, probably.


And via H.S. Teoh,
>On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:46:41PM -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
>[snip]
>> That comment on negative numbers -- that's the way I actually do think of
>> them.  Seems valid to me, since you can't have negative distances, you
>> can't hold negative amounts,
        Oh?  bank statements can be in negative territory on occasion :-((

>> just some abstract place holder to show that things are not going in the
>> same direction as the focus of your inquiry.
>
Hmmm.  Perhaps Kash (or others?) will call positives "right" numbers,
negatives "left", informally at least-- mathematicians probably need
something more precise.  Or perhaps positive "up", negative "down"-- still
in flux.....
A little more Gwr:  go3 'number', luh1 'pure', luh1 go3 'prime number'