how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

[Steve Holden]

Paddy wrote:
> Hmm,
> I've found a term for a large tuple, a muckle:
> 
> 
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Amuckle&btnG=Search&meta=
> 
> Definitions of muckle on the Web:
> 
>     * batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
> extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
> "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
>       wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
> 
As in that well-known Scottish saying

   "Mony a mickle make a muckle"

meaning many small things add up to something great. Due, I believe, the 
the great Rabbie Burns.

regards
  Steve
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