Re: [FWP] Love & Hate shenanigans

[Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, alex avriette wrote:
 [I wrote, attribution missing:]
> > Um?  Your inequality holds for *all* Bullean pairs, since
> 
> I hate to be a pedant (most of the time) but isnt it "boolean"? I was
> going to be quiet but I keep getting messages with the misspelling and
> keep twitching every time i read it.

I figured it was an intentional coinage.  I don't quite understand _why_
Jasvir Nagra picked it, but it's as good a name as any, IMHO.  There is,
after all, no previously accepted term for such pairs as far as I know.

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