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		Dewie on March 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development n * m is the concatenation of n, applied m times. n * 1 then means to concatenate one n with nothing, yielding n, ie. the identity.

judk on March 2, 2014 | [–]

But that's a different kind of concatenation, not the concatenation of m and n.

Filligree on March 4, 2014 | [–]

All right, I'm game. How about function compositions? :-)

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