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Oct 31, 2023 11:43
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French term

zone voisine à gauche

French to English Law/Patents IT (Information Technology) Programs
Context:
les règles d’ordonnancement pour l’encodage consistent : si une zone de la tuile représentée par le nœud terminal considéré possède au moins une zone voisine à gauche, la valeur d’élévation différentielle associée au nœud terminal considéré est calculée à partir de la valeur d’élévation de la zone voisine à gauche qui est la plus au-dessus parmi ladite au moins une zone voisine à gauche

Left farming and back to editing
This has been translated as "left-neighboring zone" and just wondering if that sounds OK. There is elsewhere "above-neighboring zone", so perhaps OK.
Confirmation or otherwise would be appreciated.
TIA Chris.
Proposed translations (English)
5 left neighbor / left horizontal neighbor / left diagonal neighbor

Discussion

Annette Fehr Jan 16:
No worries Bashiqa. I just wanted to find out what the actual term is so that we can add it to the glossary. I also happen to love logic, mathematics and computer programming!
Annette Fehr Jan 16:
I found a great definition, too, from Berkeley, but it's not showing up in my answer, so here it is:

Neighbor: Two vertices are neighbors if there is an edge connecting them

(https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61bl/r//cur/graphs/definit...
Emmanuella Oct 31, 2023:
Adjacent ?
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/adjacent#:~:text=Adjac...
philgoddard Oct 31, 2023:
It seems to me that "voisine à gauche" is ambiguous, because as well as being immediately to the left, it can be to the left AND above or below. I would just leave the translation as it is, and let the customer sort it out.
Emmanuella Oct 31, 2023:
Cela me paraît suffisant.
Bashiqa (asker) Oct 31, 2023:
the new calculation is based on the result found in the zone to the left.
Emmanuella Oct 31, 2023:
J'entends bien, mais selon moi, cette phrase ne veut rien dire.
Bashiqa (asker) Oct 31, 2023:
The tiles are like a checker board, i.e. divided into squares, which are either above, below, left or right of another square.
Emmanuella Oct 31, 2023:
...parmi ladite au moins une zone voisine à gauche.
Que signifie ce passage ?

Proposed translations

77 days

left neighbor / left horizontal neighbor / left diagonal neighbor

Adjacency matrices are used in graph theory and computer science, and terms are specific but very logical too. Thankfully, a lot of literature is available.

I've found an excellent little diagram that perfectly illustrates neighbors in matrices:



In the case where we take cell (i, j) as the reference, the left horizontal neighbor cell is (i, j-1), and the left diagonal squares are (i-1, j-1) and (i+1, j-1). The linguist in me prefers the sound of "left-neighbouring," but terminological references are really abundant and very clear.

I think it's important to be as precise with the English terms as the terms in the source document are, especially in scientific domains such as mathematics and computer science, which demand precision.
Reference:

https://www.baeldung.com/cs/finding-neighbors-of-matrix-element

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/109668/matrix-covering-by-squares

Note from asker:
Thank you. I must admit having difficulty remembering exactly what I did 3 months ago. From memory I left the text as translated, i.e. left-neighbouring zone.
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