Talk:Mutually exclusive events

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I added the section about the comparison of mutual exclusivity with collective exhaustion. I did the same thing with the wikipedia stub on collectively exhaustive and crossed referenced both articles with each other. I am not a professional mathematician, so if I have made an error in this update please correct it and I'll have no worries.

capitalist

I removed the stub tag from this article because the topic is narrow enough in scope to justify a very short entry. capitalist 03:38, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

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Shouldn't this be at Mutual exclusivity (obviously with a redirect from the current title) to conform to the guideline that article titles should be a noun rather than an adjective? Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Redirect_adjectives_to_nouns JulesH 15:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Collectively exhaustive should actually be collective exhaustion too. capitalist 02:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I've made the change but I'm not sure what the "double redirect" issue is that I'm supposed to check for. capitalist 02:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Urggg ... "mutual exclusivity" and "collective exhaustion" really don't sound natural, and will need redirects or relabelling every time the terms are used. It would be better to call the articles "mutually exclusive events" and "collectively exhuastive events" - in the same way as we have prime number not "primeness", even and odd numbers not "evenness and oddness", finite set not "finiteness" etc. Gandalf61 11:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. I hope this is the last time I have to move these two articles; they're getting heavy! LOL capitalist 04:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)