Decimating Excel files

[Arnd]

On 5 Feb., 10:53, greg <g... at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Interesting. But does this mean that "duplicating" is
> actually from the wrong root?

by definition: roots are never wrong ;)
But indeed, you're right, one has to look at the root (eg connected
verb) to understand the Numeralia they used:
The number 2 has Numeralia duo, secundus, bini and bis:

duo + plicare (=to fold): Cardinalia (how much? ->n-fold)

> And also we have  "bifurcation",

yes, or eg "bisection" (from "bis"):  Multiplicativa (how many times?)
To complete the story:
"binary" (from "bini"): Distributiva (how much each time?, to build
groups or distributions)
"second" (from "secundus"): Ordinalia (which? -> the 2nd, the 3rd etc)

Arnd (I hated Latin)