Timeline for How to compress 'odd/even number of times'?
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 15:05 | history | reopened |
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @Greybeard sometimes mathematicians must define their own words for convenience. Thank you for researching this for us, I will never use this term in a non-mathematical text. You are more than welcome to extract a legit answer from this and I will happily accept it. EDIT: Oh my bad, Mr. Ashworth did not unblock this question (yet), either being unable to do so or still believing that this question is a duplicate. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 20:21 | comment | added | Greybeard | Having said that "evenfold/oddfold" did not exist and would not exist - I now find that they do exist, but, it appears, only in the rarefied context of advanced mathematics: ">"Non-linear Optics in Metals" edited by K. H. Bennemann >The analysis is performed for films with an even-fold rotation symmetry as well as for those with an odd-fold one. [...]the thin garnet films,[...] have even-fold rotation symmetry [...] while those grown on (Ill) faces have the odd-fold rotation symmetry." However, I would caution against using these terms unless addressing mathematicians. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @Chenmunka Thats where I have been directed after this question was closed for unjustified duplicity, looking for answers at a forum advertised as "containing less frustrated, less eager to close things off people". | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 15:29 | comment | added | Greybeard | @Captain Trojan - unfortunately, it does not. "Oddfold" and "evenfold" do not exist as words in English. "Fold" is qualified only by a number or quantifier. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 15:25 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Can you find it in a dictionary? (The answer "No, but that doesn't prove that it's never been used that way" is trumped by "But it does show it's at best a very rare usage, and one would be very wise to avoid it even if it's been worded.") | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 15:23 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @Greybeard How about the suffix "-fold"? Does it help my case? As in "The line intersects the polygon oddfold." | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 15:18 | comment | added | Greybeard | The normal use is thus: The series repeats twice”; “The series repeats three times” “The series repeats an even/odd number of times.” With sufficient context, we can say: “The series repeats oddly/evenly.”; Or “The series is odd/even.” Czech is an fusional synthetic language, but English is an analytic language, hence the difference. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 15:16 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @EdwinAshworth Thank you for answering! I would expect this to be an actual answer, and not just a comment, so others can see it immediately as well, but I appretiate it anyway. If what you're saying is true, that would be very unfortunate. As a respectable math teacher, your opinion is most likely valid, but I cannot give up my search yet. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:52 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'X occurs an odd number of times' cannot be expressed *'X is oddnumerate'; *'X occurs oddwise' etc. Though 'oddly' is a word, it means 'peculiarly'. There is no single-word term for 'X occurs an even number of times' either. *paritous/ly. To the best of my knowledge; I taught maths to Oxbridge entrance level. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:33 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @JJ Thank you for the suggestion, I am migrating out of here. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | JJJ | @CaptainTrojan the people on here are a bit frustrated, eager to close things. Most others, including me, aren't really active here anymore. I'm not sure, but you might be better off asking at English Language Learners Stack Exchange. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @EdwinAshworth Kind sir, would you please reopen the question? (or try to answer it yourself?) It is clearly not a duplicate of the one you have associated with it. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:30 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @JJ Finally, thank you, the first person in this post that realizes what the question is asking. Probably my mistake, if only you got it, I must have terrible expressive skills. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:25 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:06 | comment | added | JJJ | @EdwinAshworth this question asks if there's such a word for odd and even, not for higher numbers. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:00 | history | closed | Edwin Ashworth single-word-requests Users with the single-word-requests badge or a synonym can single-handedly close single-word-requests questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Is there a word for four times as much, analogous to once, twice, and thrice? | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 13:53 | history | edited | Captain Trojan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 13:46 | answer | added | Packard | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 13:03 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | In Czech, words for "odd" and "even" (in the context of numbers) are "sudý" and "lichý" respectively, and a "times"-equivalent suffix exists, "-krát", used in "five" = "pět", "five times" = "pětkrát", and so on, therefore, we can use "sudokrát" and "lichokrát" for expressing "odd/even number of times". | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 12:59 | comment | added | Captain Trojan | @Kate Thank you for your clarification, however, this is not a practical, but a theoretical question. I respect - but do not care much about - what words are commonly used. I am simply looking for what the question states. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 12:33 | comment | added | Mitch | What are these Czech words? That might help others in a search. | |
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 12:25 | history | asked | Captain Trojan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |