On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > > The Church numeral for N is a function of two arguments which applies its > first argument N times to its second, i.e. (f^N)(x) = f(f(...(f(x))...)). >
Thanks - nice clear explanation. Appreciated. For an encore, can you give an example of where this is actually useful? It seems a pretty narrow utility. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list