On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:30:43 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Peter Maas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Salerno schrieb:
>> Terry Hancock wrote:
>>
>>> So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"? "monople"?
>>> It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought
>>> to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly
>>> nature.
>>>
>>> Are we having fun yet? ;-)
>>
>> I kind of like 'moople'. :)
>
>tuples are of latin origin, so one can derive the tuple words
>systematically:
>
>Latin n-tuple
>---------------------------
>... ...
>triplex triple
>duplex duple
>simplex simple
When I was in 4th grade, I was taught to count to ten in latin: unos,
duos, trace, quatro, quinque, sex, septem, octem, novem, decem
(assuming the intervening 35 years haven't dimmed my memory too
much...). This would suggest "untuple" (or one of several
contractions such as "unuple" or "uple").
Though I suspect "single" is correct. Consider coronary bypass
operations -- single, double, triple, quadruple...
Regards,
-=Dave
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