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		catlifeonmars on April 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Idempotence now prevents pain later This is closely related to commutativity, which is another useful property of a system, especially a distributed one, where events commonly arrive out of order.

mateo411 on April 9, 2021 [–]

Also associativity, which is more than two events occurring in any order.

Interesting I know floating point arithmetic is not associative, but I think it is communitative.

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