On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Joe Niederberger <niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
> My earliest posts on this topic stress that the word is "overloaded" (to use some programming jargon.)
The word might be overloaded (it's called polysemy) but the contexts and meanings aren't. Mathematics isn't linguistics. The best way to describe this thread is "back asswards".
