how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

Martin P. Hellwig mhellwig at xs4all.nl
Tue Feb 14 03:04:13 EST 2006


Roy Smith wrote:
> Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>> (A 2-tuple is an "ordered pair" in mathematics.)  If a 2-tuple is a 
>> pair, then it would seem to follow that a 1-tuple is a single.
> 
> Yeah, but an *ordered* single :-)
> 
> A more interesting question is what do you call ()?  A none-tuple?
empty?

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