On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:47 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:


On 20 November 2017 at 17:55, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:

An "odd number" is {mI' mob}
An "even number" is {mI' mobHa'}

{mob} also means "alone". It seems the metaphor here is that an odd number can't be divided into two evenly, and so it stays in one piece by itself.

I feel an opportunity was missed here to explain that Klingons don't have even/odd, they have "divisible by 3", "has a remainder of 1 when divided by 3", and "has a remainder of 2 when divided by 3". That would actually be in line with how Klingon mathematics is explained in TKD, how their display grids are shown to work visually in the shows and movies, and how the cardinal directions have been explained to us.

It's still a useful concept, even if it doesn't quite align with the number system. Maybe they started using the even/odd distinction more often when they made the shift to the base-10 system, and the old "divisible by three" terminology fell out of common use like the old 243-lawmey degree system.