On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:15:22PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > On 6/05/20 6:12 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >https://mathworld.wolfram.com/n-Tuple.html > >https://mathworld.wolfram.com/List.html > >https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Sequence.html > > I get the feeling those definitions are a result of seeing > things through Mathematica-tinted glasses.
Oh I'm not agreeing with them, I'm just pointing out that the people who hang around math.stackexchange and the people who write for Mathworld don't agree. It is difficult to capture all the nuances of common usage in a short definition. Based purely on dictionary definitions, 'The Strolling Useless' is precisely the same meaning as 'The Walking Dead' but no native English speaker would confuse the two, and I'm pretty sure that few mathematicians would call the origin of the Cartesian Plane "a sequence" even if it does meet the definition perfectly :-) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XX2KUBSCFJ257RGL4HGXJU5SKQXLMAJQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
