What would you call...?
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the number of items in a group. I swear I have the word for it on the tip of my tongue, but I can neither recall it nor find it with google.
I'm your huckleberry! Cardinality :cool:
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Not quite. Actually, what I'm looking for is a word to describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them.
Use the American Universal Collective Noun Designate, 'Bunch'.
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I'm your huckleberry! Cardinality :cool:
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That's the one. I had mental images of the pope and blue bird while I was trying to figure it out. So my brain is almost working tonight.
At your service good sir! Feel free to enlist an academe for all your future references ;)
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Use the American Universal Collective Noun Designate, 'Bunch'.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
:laugh: That's certainly worth a whole lot more than a 5! But since I can't give you a whole bunch, you'll have to settle for just 1 :laugh: Incidentally, I was reading your post in SB 2.0... :thumbsup:
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:laugh: That's certainly worth a whole lot more than a 5! But since I can't give you a whole bunch, you'll have to settle for just 1 :laugh: Incidentally, I was reading your post in SB 2.0... :thumbsup:
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It made me laugh, so being a generous chap, I pass it on.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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Not quite. Actually, what I'm looking for is a word to describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them.
(count() > 1) and (count() == 1) :)
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Not quite. Actually, what I'm looking for is a word to describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them.
Cardinality is the academic word for count; it is a natural number, i.e. a positive integer. It does not care whether it is zero, one or more. So it does not really "describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them". Example: The cardinality of a database table is the number of rows in the table. :)
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Not quite. Actually, what I'm looking for is a word to describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them.
Order, or ordinal, I think...
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the number of items in a group. I swear I have the word for it on the tip of my tongue, but I can neither recall it nor find it with google.
Blackadder: "Right Baldrick, today we are going to learn counting. How many beans are there on the table?" Baldrick: "One, my lord." B: "And if I add another one?" B: "Some beans, my lord." B: "And if I add another one?" B: "Some beans, my lord." B: "And if I add another one?" B: "Some beans, my lord." ...
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Cardinality is the academic word for count; it is a natural number, i.e. a positive integer. It does not care whether it is zero, one or more. So it does not really "describe whether something has just a single element or a group of them". Example: The cardinality of a database table is the number of rows in the table. :)
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Unless it's for a pr0n site, in which case it's the carnality of the data base table.
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