“…Klir Since, for any of these operations, [A⊗B] α is a closed interval for each α∈(0, 1] and A, B are fuzzy numbers, A ⊗ B is also a fuzzy number. For the collection of linguistic vectors (or type 2 fuzzy set) where each component is non-interactive, Mares [26] has shown that with 0 (the vector of singleton fuzzy number 0), 1 (vector of singleton fuzzy number 1), and componentwise addition and scalar multiplication, this forms a vector space. Also, with appropriate definitions of distance, these spaces exhibit the properties of metric spaces [21,27].…”