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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:32:22 -0700, Rob Perkins 
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>Wesley Struebing wrote:
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>> Um, Rob?  Amy has her nitpicks, but you just committed one that has
>> ALWAYS grated on me (ask my dear wife how I rant at the TV when they
>> say things like, "so unique", etc.)
>> 
>> I know what you mean, and that's OK, but think about it.  Unique is a
>> superlative.  IT TAKES NO MODIFIERS.  UNIQUE means BY ITSELF
>> "one-of-a-kind".  It don't need no Steenken modifiers!
>
>Ah no. This time I know exactly what I'm doing.
>
>Time for me to push back a bit, because you're out of context, since my 
>usage was not literary, it was mathematical. [1] And here comes the 
>layperson's math lesson:
>
>Each element of A is unique. Each element of B is unique. BUT, because 
>the domain in A is so much larger than that in B, well, the uniqueness 
>of elements in A are greater than those in B, because there are more 
>unique elements there.

You are correct.  Not being particularly mathematical, I wasn't
reading it that way.

My apologies.
>
(set theory not Zathras' strong suit...)

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