Arlo,
I stand corrected. However, there is something awfully charming about “thrupple.” Can I continue to use it? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arlo Barnes Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 3:13 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and square roots On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: a sign IS a thrupple .. or whatever that lovely word is A 3-tuple? I believe "tuple" itself is just a generalisation of "double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, [...]", with "singleton" being the odd one (pun? intended) out. So the word you want is "triple". -Arlo James Barnes
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