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		bmm6o on May 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get? The term is very well-established in mathematics (for e.g. matrices and transformations) that is the precisely correct term for this, and it is already widely used in CS. Inventing a new word would not be helpful in the long run.

dscrd on May 6, 2013 [–]

I find a world where we're locked into using words mathematicians invent a very bleak one indeed.

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