| Fuzzy number | Linguistic scales | TFN | Reciprocal of a TFN |
| 9 | Absolutely important | (7, 9, 9) | (1/9, 1/9, 1/7) | 7 | Very strongly important | (5, 7, 9) | (1/9, 1/7, 1/5) | 5 | Essentially important | (3, 5, 7) | (1/7, 1/5, 1/3) | 3 | Weakly important | (1, 3, 5) | (1/5, 1/3, 1) | 1 | Equally important | (1, 1, 3) | (1/3, 1, 1) | 2, 4, 6, 8 | Intermediate value between two adjacent judgments | ā | ā |
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