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jcromartie on March 20, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Five Dollar Programming Words

I think Jeff conveys the wrong sense of idempotence. He has somehow extracted the purely mathematical sense, while the source he quotes goes on to explain the programming angle.

gamache on March 20, 2009 [–]

Yeah, I had never heard 'idempotence' used in a mathematical sense before. I just think of that as a function hitting a fixed point.

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