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Comment by wwweston

7 years ago

Perhaps we need a specific nomenclature for this sort of case: oddempotent!

After all, you get the same state if you do it 3,5,7,9,etc times as if you do it once, right? ;)

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wwweston

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hashmush  7 years ago

That would be an involution!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involution_(mathematics)

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