Friday, January 15, 2010

And the logical puzzling begins…

Ienpw has a lower degree of relation to Cartlesham than Bucky.

posted by Qwazukee at 15 Jan 2010 18:22:23 UTC Comments (11)

Comments

Kevan:

01-15-2010 18:29:00 UTC

We should really come up with a better term for this - as somebody said during voting, “lower degree of relation” is a bit confusing when it means “is more closely related”. Any suggestions?

Qwazukee:

01-15-2010 18:30:23 UTC

“More closely related?”

Kevan:

01-15-2010 18:32:54 UTC

It needs to be a noun for cases like “Each Guest has a degree of relation”.

Josh:

01-15-2010 18:57:00 UTC

Line or degree of descent?

As in, Iepnw has a shorter line of descent than Bucky.

Hix:

01-15-2010 18:58:28 UTC

“degrees of separation” is better?

spikebrennan:

01-15-2010 19:10:34 UTC

“Seniority”, as in primogeniture.  if A is more likely to inherit than B, then A is senior to B.  A has more seniority.

Josh:

01-15-2010 19:13:30 UTC

I like that. Lineal seniority, perhaps, for clarity.

Hix:

01-15-2010 19:15:04 UTC

spikebrennan:  that has the same problem with the numerical mismatch as “degree of relation”.  More seniority is a smaller number.

Darknight:

01-15-2010 21:42:30 UTC

wait, how do ya fine all that out?

tecslicer:

01-15-2010 23:51:47 UTC

“lower disassociation” lower number, higher rank.

Ienpw III:

01-16-2010 15:43:39 UTC

So… this is good for me, right?