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0 pointsFilligree12y ago0 comments

Or multiplication.

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Dewie12y ago· 2 in thread

n * m is the concatenation of n, applied m times. n * 1 then means to concatenate one n with nothing, yielding n, ie. the identity.

judk12y ago

But that's a different kind of concatenation, not the concatenation of m and n.

All right, I'm game. How about function compositions? :-)

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