Yup, It is just a function that multiplies a value by a fixed number. I just named it n-tuple because it rhymes : quadruple, centuple, but perhaps it was the w

Yup, It is just a function that multiplies a value by a fixed number. I just named it n-tuple because it rhymes : quadruple, centuple, but perhaps it was the wrong way to name it. I was just surprised to realise that there is no limit to the value of n for this type of function that multiplies a value by a fixed number, so I put this on Hackernews. It was a surprising result, at least to me ...