Suitening our nomenclature

  • Authors:
  • L. Ramshaw

  • Affiliations:
  • DEC Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Donald E. Knuth has suggested an alternative name for a multiset that I like very much: a suite, as in a suite of rooms or a suite of dances. Please join me in replacing "multiset" and "bag" with "suite" in our mathematical lexicon.