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Posted by PeterMcC on 10/31/08 11:44
Davémon" <"davémon wrote in
<55yge2pfd8n5$.w18635w13l1c.dlg@40tude.net>
> Toby Inkster arranged shapes to form:
>
>> Davémon wrote:
>>
>>> Lists with no items? That doesn't make any sense to me at all!
>>
>> The mathematical equivalent for the UL element would be what is
>> called a "set".
>>
>> A set is a group of numbers/shapes/letters/vectors/whatever. Some
>> examples are the set of all positive integers, the set of letters
>> that directly follow vowels in the alphabet, and the set of all
>> people called Kevin.
>>
>> The set is an abstract concept, and can be dealt with
>> mathematically, in many cases without worrying about how many (if
>> any) elements it contains.
>
> However, HTML is a language, and I don't think Language and
> Mathematics are directly comparable.
In lots of ways, they are.
> For example, in maths, two negatives make a positive, wheras in
> language (English at least) two negatives are just emphatically
> negative. "I don't know nothing about it".
That's a double negative - it means the positive: if I don't know *nothing*
about it then I do know *something* about it.
--
PeterMcC
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