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. 2023 Sep 1;9(9):e19727. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19727

Table 7.

Fuzzy numbers used for pairwise comparisons.

Linguistic variables Triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs) Reciprocal TFNs
Equal importance (EqI) (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1)
Weak importance (WI) (2, 3, 4) (1/4, 1/3, 1/2)
Strong importance (SI) (4, 5, 6) (1/6, 1/5, 1/4)
Demonstrated importance (DI) (6, 7, 8) (1/8, 1/7, 1/6)
Extreme importance (ExI) (8, 9, 10) (1/10, 1/9, 1/8)