[Haskell-cafe] Re: Positive integers

Jared Updike jupdike at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 21:37:25 EST 2006


> An additive torsor is?

Surprisingly, there is a page on MathWorld about Torsors but it is
empty. Google turned up the following page with a good explanation.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html

> I'd maintain that the difference between two lengths is an entirely different
> quantity from the length of a list.

(Maybe this is a good example of what the term torsor captures.)

Thanks to Aaron for expanding our vocabulary.

  Jared.
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