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. 2014 Dec;73:208–221. doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.08.001

Table 1.

Triangular fuzzy number of linguistic variables used in this study (Saaty and Vargas, 2008, Vahidnia et al., 2009).

Linguistic variables Triangular fuzzy numbers Reciprocal triangular fuzzy numbers
Extremely strong (9,9,9) (1/9, 1/9, 1/9)
Very strong (6,7,8) (1/8, 1/7, 1/6)
Strong (4,5,6) (1/6, 1/5, 1/4)
Moderately strong (2,3,4) (1/4, 1/3, 1/2)
Equally strong (1,1,1) (1,1,1)
Intermediate (7,8,9), (5,6,7), (3,4,5), (1,2,3) (1/9, 1/8,1/7), (1/7, 1/6,1/5), (1/5, 1/4,1/3), (1/3, 1/2,1)