On 5 Feb., 10:53, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
