Suitening our nomenclature
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGACT News
- Vol. 20 (1) , 60-61
- https://doi.org/10.1145/65780.65781
Abstract
Donald E. Knuth has suggested an alternative name for a multiset that I like very much: a suite , as in a suite of rooms or a suite of dances. Please join me in replacing "multiset" and "bag" with "suite" in our mathematical lexicon.Keywords
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