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In article <1161096843.571771.7480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_war@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Are the terms "3, 5" and "5, 3" inverses or converses of one another?
I don't think they are either.
"Converse" usually applies to an implication statement. The converse
of a statement of the form "If P then Q" is the statement "If Q then
P." As such, since neither of your statements are implications, I
would not think either can be reasonably called a converse of the
other.
"Inverse" has many meanings depending on context; but I would not
apply it to the expressions you write except under some very strict
interpretations of what you meant.
Perhaps you want the word "reverse"? Taking an ordered list, and
listing it from last to first might reasonably be called "reversing"
the list.
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