Re: Double Prime?

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen scripsit:

> I spoke to the person who first dubbed me "Sarah Double Prime" a while back,
> and indicated to her the concern raised on this list about the correctness
> of this title.  She reminded me that she was a math major and sent me this
> link... (apparently I'm a derivative Sarah ^_^)
>
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoublePrime.html
I yield to nobody in my admiration for Eric Weisstein's magnissimum opus,
and undoubtedly the overwhelming majority of anglophone mathematicians
say "double prime", but that it doesn't make it any the less Bad and Wrong.
So there.  :-)

> To keep this slightly on topic, has anyone here been brave enough to come up
> with new mathemtical terminology and models for their conlang?
Lojban has a large mathematical subset, with ways to speak both ordinary
math notation and Reverse Polish while retaining all (or more than all)
the unambiguity of written mathematics.

        li re du li vei re su'i re ve'o te'a pimu
        the-number 2 = the-number ( 2 + 2 ) to-the-power .5

        li re du li fu'a re boi re su'i pimu te'a
        the-number 2 = the-number [RPN] 2 [push] 2 + .5 to-the-power

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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