How to force a single number to be a tuple

[Bryan Olson]

Roy Smith wrote:
 > Dennis Lee Bieber
 >> An unrestricted Cartesian product basically pairs up each entry
 >> of "domain A" with each entry of "domain B"
 >
 > Ah.  The cross-product.  It's amazing how so many fields of study use
 > the same concepts but invent new names for things to obfuscate
 > everything :-)

The Cartesian product is named for René Descartes, father of
analytic geometry.  Though sometimes called the 'Cross product',
the latter term is much more commonly associated with the vector
cross-product, and that's what people will usually find if they
try to look up or Google "cross-product".


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--Bryan