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- noun Plural form of
tuple .
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Basically a relation in relational algebra is a set of dictionaries (called tuples) where each dictionary has identical keys
Planet Python 2008
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Go to: www. cramster.com Vectors are "tuples" (pairs, triples, or more) of numbers, depending on how many dimensions you're working with.
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You can easily replicate ternary functionality using tuples then the conditional to select the appropriate one. e.g. ( "b", "a") [True] 'a'
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In particular, it is evident that the detection loophole is more difficult to block in an experiment performed with n-tuples of particles,
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
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We can think of the “extension” of an n-ary quantifier or sentential connective C on a domain D as a function from n-tuples of sets of assignments (of values from D to the language's variables) to sets of assignments.
Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009
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Commas for tuples, semi-colons for list and array items
Comedy: Scala vs. Ruby vs. Objective C Jack Cough 2009
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The Sinn of an expression was said to be a “way of presenting” the corresponding Bedeutung, which might be an entity, a truth-value, or a function from (ordered n-tuples of) entities to truth-values.
Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009
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An entirely new domain of variants is opened by studying ensembles of n-tuples of particles with n ¥ 3.
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
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These clauses can be applied recursively to define the p-transform of a set of ordered tuples in D, a set of sets of objects in D, and so on.
Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009
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So far we have defined permutation invariance for objects, tuples, and sets, but not for predicates, quantifiers, or other linguistic expressions.
Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009
errguitar commented on the word tuples
From Wikipedia: The term originated as an abstraction of the sequence: single, double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, n-tuple. A tuple of length n is usually described as an n-tuple. In mathematics, a tuple is a sequence (also known as an "ordered list") of values, called the components of the tuple. These components can be any kind of mathematical objects, where each component of a tuple is a value of a specified type
May 30, 2008