[tlhIngan Hol] Anyone wan to help design a Klingon ruler?

[Benjamin Atkinson]

Thank you both for helping fill my gap in number theory.

"Sadly, we know very little of units of length smaller than one 'uj, but
yes,
there is confirmation of those measurements being expressed using decimals. In
the link above, you'll find examples such as "

I did not find the link you referenced. Could you re-send?

majQa'

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:58 AM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 November 2016 at 21:32, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
> >> facilitate communication with other civilizations. Might we report units
> >> of 'uj' as 0.1 uj, 0.2 uj, etc?
> >
> > Sadly, we know very little of units of length smaller than one 'uj, but
> yes,
> > there is confirmation of those measurements being expressed using
> decimals.
> > In the link above, you'll find examples such as
> >
> > wejvatlh loSmaH loS vI' vagh wej 'ujmey (344,53 'ujmey)
>
> Just to clarify what I wrote earlier: 2'3.1 and 2'3.2 would be how you
> write 1/3 and 1/3, respectively, in the 3-adic system. I had
> interpreted your original message to mean that you wanted to design a
> ruler using the ternary Klingon counting system. If you actually mean
> 1/10 and 2/10, then 0.1 and 0.2 is fine.
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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