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		schoen on June 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Prog... Bundling the time and the volume might be better called "forming a vector" or "forming an ordered pair" rather than "addition". You can then perform addition and subtraction with the resulting ordered pairs or vectors.

dataflow on June 17, 2024 [–]

There's no need for ordering (it's a bag rather than a vector), but yeah.

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