Table 3.

Saaty and triangular fuzzy scales

Linguistic explanation	Saaty number	Reciprocal	Triangular fuzzy scale	Reciprocal triangular fuzzy scale
Equally important	1	1	(1,1,1)	(1,1,1)
Intermediate between 1 and 3	2	1/2	(1,2,3)	(1/3, 1/2, 1)
Moderately important	3	1/3	(1,3,5)	(1/4, 1/3, 1/2)
Intermediate	4	1/4	(3,4,5)	(1/5, 1/4, 1/3)
Strongly important	5	1/5	(3,5,7)	(1/6, 1/5, 1/4)
Intermediate	6	1/6	(5,6,7)	(1/7, 1/6, 1/5)
Very strongly important	7	1/7	(6,7,8)	(1/8, 1/7, 1/6)
Intermediate	8	1/8	(7,8,9)	(1/9, 1/8, 1/7)
Extremely important	9	1/9	(9,9,9)	(1/9, 1/9, 1/9)