john@basser.oz (John Mackin) (08/07/89)
In article <2422@basser.oz>, I wrote: > In article <14181@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > > > (PS: I think the word for 4-adic is "tetradic" or "quadary", not "quadratic".) > [...] > Suggestions are most welcome -- Well, I got two, and they're both right. From: Chris Torek <chris@mimsy.umd.edu> `Quaternary', of course. Chris This is just the word I couldn't think of (hangs head in shame :-). And furthermore, From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> Subject: Tetradic `Monadic' means `like a monad.' `Dyadic' means `like a dyad.' They are used just the same when talking about operators. It may not be classical, but it's normal. Thanks for pointing this out, Lars. I was so hung up on finding a word that went with `unary' and `binary' that I had forgotten that it is indeed normal usage to call one- and two-place operators `monadic' and `dyadic' respectively, so `tetradic' is fine too. From the Centre for Correct English, John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia john@basser.oz.AU (john%basser.oz.AU@UUNET.UU.NET) {uunet,mcvax,ukc,nttlab}!munnari!basser.oz!john