Re: What does "orthogony" mean?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 11:15:49 MST


Mikael Johansson wrote:
>
> For chrissakes! I cannot hear the word 'group' being mentioned without
> asking myself what the operator is and whether it is abelian :-)

Q: What's purple and commutative?
A: An Abelian grape.

Q: What's purple, commutative, and is worshipped by a limited number of
people?
A: A finitely venerated Abelian grape.

Would someone please explain this joke?

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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