From Wikipedia: "The term originated as an abstraction of the sequence: single, couple/double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple, octuple, ..., n‑tuple, …"
> On 16 Feb 2021, at 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > And I still > don't know where the word comes from in the first place. Given that it > is used in maths, probably Latin, Greek or Arabic.
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