Monday 21 December 2015

meaning - ”ないし”-Unable to understand the use of this phrase here



基底ないしパターンの数mは、5.3.3項で説明した方法を使ってデータごとに求めるべきパラメータです




I am unable to understand the use of "ないし" phrase in the head of the above sentence after the "基底". This phrase is a form of the adjective "ない" ,meaning no/is not, which is mainly used when the speaker wants to continue after the negation. So why is this being used in the head of the sentence ?


If necessary, this sentence is speaking about a machine learning algorithm and its tuning.


Please help.



Answer



I think it's the conjunction 乃至{ないし}, meaning "or" here, and "from ... to" in other contexts.



基底ないしパターンの数mは…


The (amount?) of bases or patterns, m, ...




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