| | Satty scale | Linguistic scale for relative importance | Fuzzy triangular scale | Corresponding reciprocal |
| | 1 | Equally important | (1, 1, 1) | (1, 1, 1) | | 3 | Weakly important | (2, 3, 4) | (1/4, 1/3, 1/2) | | 5 | Fairly important | (4, 5, 6) | (1/6, 1/5, 1/4) | | 7 | Strongly important | (6, 7, 8) | (1/8, 1/7, 1/6) | | 9 | Absolutely important | (9, 9, 9) | (1/9, 1/9, 1/9) | | 2 | The intermediate values between two adjacent scale | (1, 2, 3) | (1/3, 1/2, 1) | | 4 | (3, 4, 5) | (1/5, 1/4, 1/3) | | 6 | (5, 6, 7) | (1/7, 1/6, 1/5) | | 8 | (7, 8, 9) | (1/9, 1/8, 1/7) |
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