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Subtleties between Spanish and English relating to Mathematics and Computation
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Aug 15, 2013 9:13 PM
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This is about a little bit of the subtleties in language and math between Spanish and English:
From English to Spanish one might assume:
shell suena como plataforma
singular singular
un guisante tiene una cáscara
singular plural
libros se sientan en un estante
singular = 1
plural = cualquier número> 1
plural = / = cualquier número mayor que 0
plural = cualquier número mayor que 1
cualquier número mayor que 0 que también es mayor que...shell suena como plataforma
singular singular
un guisante tiene una cáscara
singular plural
libros se sientan en un estante
singular = 1
plural = cualquier número> 1
plural = / = cualquier número mayor que 0
plural = cualquier número mayor que 1
cualquier número mayor que 0 que también es mayor que...
But starting only with the above to work with and placing in English one might quite well arrive at these conclusions:
sounds like platform shell
unique singular
pea has a shell
singular plural
books sitting on a shelf
singular = 1
plural = any number> 1
plural = / = any number greater than 0
plural = any number greater than 1
any number greater than 0 that is also greater than NOT is always singular and does not equal any other number
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