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Also a common naming scheme in music, which is where APL got the terms from: one note is a monad, two simultaneously is a dyad, three is a triad, four is a tetr
by mjn 9y ago
Also a common naming scheme in music, which is where APL got the terms from: one note is a monad, two simultaneously is a dyad, three is a triad, four is a tetrad, etc.
Fwiw APL's use of monad in this sense predates the FP use of the term by several decades.
- Xophmeister 9y agoMonads, in the FP sense, come from the same construction in Category Theory. According to Wikipedia, this was first "invented" in 1958, but the term "monad" was coined later by Saunders Mac Lane.