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kmoser | 10 days ago

> Definitely no multiples. What would that even mean, also you would need unbounded space for multiples of just two atoms.

I have a list and I want to assign a unique ID to each list item. Each list item itself contains one or more items:

  1. My umbrella [ID "a"] and my sunglasses [ID "b"]
  2. My umbrella ["a"], my sunglasses ["b"], and my umbrella ["a"]
List item 2 contains two references to my umbrella [ID "a"].

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Dylan16807|10 days ago

So in a physical sense of identifying things that's nonsense. And again if you allow that then lists of just one or two atoms can take up infinite storage space. That's a super obvious reject. It makes no sense to even try to accommodate it in an ID system.