The Wanderer wrote: > If the nature of operation O is such that objects B and > C are guaranteed to always be identical, no matter what > object A was, then operation O is categorized as > being idempotent.
It has to do with the number of times it is applied, abs(x) = abs(abs(x)) = abs..(abs(abs(x))) The same! This is the math definition, my use case of the word was applied programming so it cannot be _exactly_ like that. Well, maybe in Haskell it can ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
