Perhaps insight could be found in a book that KEI was fond of. :)
Espy, Willard R. "Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun,
An Etymology of Words That Once Were Names."
Great Neck, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, inc., 1978.
- joey
At 16:26 -0700 2007/04/04, Roger Hui wrote:
In what ways are atoms degenerate or improper?
----- Original Message -----
From: Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:22 pm
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Need a word for a non-atomic array
There is no such thing as two-demensional atomic
arrays. All arrays with positive rank are non-atomic.
If atom is degenerate array then maybe
nondegenerate array can be called non-atom,
or proper array?
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