> learning the terms commutative and associative--though it was a long time before I grasped the latter I think it's kinda interesting—commutativity is so much

> learning the terms commutative and associative--though it was a long time before I grasped the latter I think it's kinda interesting—commutativity is so much a more clearer and approachable property than associativity, and it sounds more useful, but the later is far more important.