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Nick Nicholas scripsit:
> ... until I find out why John thinks piro means every fraction, which
> would mean that piro loi broda can mean the same as ro lo broda after
> all.
I don't think anything of the sort. "piro" means "the whole of",
certainly not "every [possible] fraction of".
> Thanks for the historical update. So things are indeed even worse than
> I thought. The funny thing is, the MEX-obsesssed incompetence which
> made tuples into math sets, and conflated tuples and masses, has also
> saved the collective by introducing the cartesian product alongside the
> set.
Can someone explain this tuples-vs-sets distinction to me? When I use
the word "tuple", I mean "ordered list of fixed but unspecified size".
Or is "tuple" being used here as a cover term for "duo, trio, quartet, ..."
rather than "pair, triple, quadruple, ..."?
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under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
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