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I like “e nihilo, unum”… from zero, one. That said, I think it’d be “Tuere utentis, datum, et verum”… “data”, IIRC, would imply plurality.
by yawpitch 1y ago
I like “e nihilo, unum”… from zero, one.
That said, I think it’d be “Tuere utentis, datum, et verum”… “data”, IIRC, would imply plurality.
- stavros 1y agoEx* nihilo.
- valleyer 1y agoBoth are accepted. See one of the mottos of the US, "e pluribus, unum".
- stavros 1y agoAh, I see, thanks.
- globnomulous 1y agoThe 'x' is omitted when the following word starts with a consonant. The only places where you're likely to find counterexamples are in poetry, where breaking the rule can be metrically expedient.
- sunrunner 1y agoIs this a valid decription of the successor function? Incidentally, if you have three hours to spare on some casual Lambda Calculus introduction, I always think [1] is a fun watch. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=5C6sv7-eTKg https://youtube.com/watch?v=5C6sv7-eTKg
- jraph 1y agoThis crossed my mind for sure :-) Valid but only partial since it only describes one value.
- benrutter 1y agoFrom what I can tell from my knowledge and googling (I did latin in school a long time ago, but full disclusure, was not good at it) data is latin for "given things" so is gramatically correct here in the plural and the accusative case (you want 'given things' not 'given thing'). If we're going to nitpick (which we obviously are!) then maybe "data" doesn't quite have for same implication in latin ("given things") vs English ("information"). Although it actually works quite nicely in the phrase as "given things". Main/most-helpful source: https://nxg.me.uk/note/2005/singular-data/ https://nxg.me.uk/note/2005/singular-data/