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Discussion on: & nbsp ; stands for "non-breaking space" 🤯

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Zane Milakovic

Such a honest tweet!

It’s crazy how many things in different languages we use, that have strange starts.

Btw what the hell is a tuple...

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Thomas H Jones II

Always makes me think of:

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Craig McIlwrath

Double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple, and so on. It's the generalization of a grouping of things, an n-tuple is group of n things. Although, I always read tuple as too-pull, not tupp-ell as it's pronounced in quintuple.