Talk:Ordered set
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This article is one of the stranger maths articles here: "do not commute" under what operation? Perhaps I'm failing to understand.
You're absolutely right. The person who wrote this is writing nonsense; he seems unaware of the difference between a set and an ordered tuple. Michael Hardy 21:34 Mar 29, 2003 (UTC)
Some context made clear what the original write meant by "does not communte" or "does not permute", but, as a mathematician who is good at understanding others' mathematical writing even when their terminology differs from what I am familiar with, I nonetheless found those terms confusing at first, and I have to think others would have as well. The article is now much better than it was; other articles that already existed address the topics. Michael Hardy 21:48 Mar 29, 2003 (UTC)
How about if we simply redirect to partial order and be done with it? AxelBoldt 00:43 Mar 30, 2003 (UTC)
How about a little bit of layman's terms here; there has to be a simple way of explaining this. I am really struggling with these highly rigorous definitions... Steve
